Senator proposes minor league baseball bill; what would Dick Durbin's 'Fair Ball Act' accomplish?
The Senator wants a safeguard in place against the salary gains players achieved under union representation from being rolled ...
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Fair Labor Standards Act
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)? The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) stands as a cornerstone of federal labor legislation, enacted in 1938 to safeguard workers' rights and establish ...
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Bill to phase out subminimum wage for disabled workers clears General Assembly
A long-awaited bill to stop Illinois organizations from paying subminimum wage to workers with disabilities will soon head to Gov. JB Pritzker’s desk after being approved by the Senate on ...
Fair Ball Act, bill aiming to further protect minor-league baseball players, to be introduced by U.S. senator
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) intends to introduce a new bill, named the Fair Ball Act, to "further protect minor league ...
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Commentary: A record number of teachers are leaving the job. Here’s why I’m one of them
I didn’t come to my L.A. school’s campus in August to set up my classroom, or spend my last days of summer mapping the ...
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Study: Equal Pay for Disabled Workers Creates, Not Costs, Jobs
When the Fair Labor Standards Act was signed into law in 1938, first establishing a national minimum wage, it came with an ...
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Texas Federal Court Vacates 2024 Fair Labor Standards Act Salary Basis Rule, Reversing Prior July Increase
and professional (EAP or “white collar”) exemptions to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). However, on November 15, 2024, Federal District Court Judge Sean Jordan of the Eastern District of ...
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It’s Over for Overtime Expansion: Texas Court Axes DOL Rule That Would Have Reclassified Millions of Employees as Overtime Eligible
On November 15th, Judge Sean Jordan of the Eastern District of Texas halted a 2024 Department of Labor (“DOL”) Final Rule (“2024 Rule”) that ...
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Fair Ball Act, bill aiming to further protect minor-league baseball players, to be introduced by U.S. senator
Durbin's bill would roll back parts of Save America's Pastime Act, passed as part of a much larger spending bill in 2018 that made players exempt from components of the Fair Labor Standards Act ...