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The Right to Receive an Honest Day’s Work

The Fair Labor Standards Act and Other Wage-and-Hour Issues

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I was once asked the following question: “if you could press a button and instantly vaporize one sector of employment law, which would it be?” my answer, without a moment’s hestitation, was the fair labor standards Act (FLSA)-he federal law that governs how many hours employees work and how employers pay them for those hours.

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Hyman, J.T. (2012). The Right to Receive an Honest Day’s Work. In: The Employer Bill of Rights. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-4552-0_7

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