July Weekly Assignment
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WeekFourAssignmentPaper28July2022.docxWeekly Paper Assignment Rubric and Instructions
There will be one paper assigned each week. You may choose any topic from this week's readings. Gather information from the textbook and outside sources. You may use APA or MLA to format your citations, but YOU MUST use Times New Roman 11-point font, 1.5 spacing, and 1-inch margins. The paper length below refers to textual content. Title pages, abstracts, charts, graphs, pictures, references sections, etc. will not be considered as part of your page length. These are extras added to enhance the paper. Please cite all of your sources. This paper is due Friday night. The papers are worth forty points each week, for a total of 160 points.
Quality of Weekly Papers
Level 1
The topic is relevant to readings and covers information from the textbook. The textbook is cited as the source as well as at least one outside source.
Level 2
Level 1 plus – Paper uses personal examples and applies theories to the author's current position and circumstances. The Paper thoroughly covers the topic using at least three outside sources.
Level 3
Level 2 plus – Going above and beyond to provide cutting-edge trends and changes in the topic. The paper includes data from current sources and a chart or graph in appendices. The paper brings in information from current year sources and cites five sources outside the text. Cite sources in-text and include the full source at the end of the paper. The appendix includes visual representations of data and any examples referenced in the paper.
Week Four Topic: Wage and Hour Regulation
Pages: Five pages exclusively (plus title and reference pages = 7).
Textbook:
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Chapter 19
Wage and Hour Regulation
Employment Law:
New Challenges in the Business Environment
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Learn the significance of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Know what the minimum wage is.
Appreciate why wage and hour laws exist.
Be aware when overtime pay is required.
Be apprised of the minimum wage and maximum hours exemptions.
Realize that children may not be employed during school hours or in certain hazardous jobs.
Chapter Checklist
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Understand that the number of hours worked cannot be averaged over several weeks to avoid overtime pay.
Evaluate the argument that eliminating the minimum wage would keep more companies from relocating abroad.
Recognize that children under the age of 14 may work for their parents.
Be apprised that court approval of entertainment and athletic contracts is required for children under 14 years of age.
Chapter Checklist (Cont.)
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Introduction
Wage and hour regulation has a twofold purpose:
To set an hourly subsistence wage for workers
To regulate the number of hours individuals have to work before becoming entitled to overtime compensation of 1.5 times their regular wage
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Introduction (Cont.)
Arguments are often made that eliminating the minimum wage would stop manufacturers from relocating to Mexico or overseas
It is difficult to imagine anyone, except possibly newly arrived immigrants or illegal aliens, working for less than the minimum wage
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Fair Labor Standards Act
Enacted in 1938 to regulate the minimum hourly wage and the number of hours that have to be worked before overtime pay (40 hours)
Record keeping is required relating to straight and overtime pay, hourly rate of pay, hours worked each day and each week, sex and occupation
Students may be paid 85% of minimum wage
Employees who receive tips have a minimum wage of $2.13 per hour
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Minimum Wage
Has risen through the years, but is not indexed to the cost of living
July 2009: the Federal minimum wage was raised to $7.25 per hour
January 1, 2012: Washington had the highest state minimum wage equal to $9.04 per hour
Santa Fe overall highest minimum wage at $10.29 per hour
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Overtime Pay
Is not required when the employee is receiving up to 10 hours per week of remedial education that is not specific job training
Overtime would be required in excess of the 10 hours if this remediation was mandated by the company
If it were a voluntary after-work program, no pay at all would be required
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Exemptions
Certain employees are exempted from the minimum wage and the maximum hour requirements:
Executives
Administrators
Professionals
Sales people
Baby-sitters
Elementary and secondary schoolteachers
Camp counselors if the camp is not in operation for more than 7 months in the calendar year
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Child Labor
Children who are at least 16 years of age may work in any occupation as long as it has not been deemed hazardous by the Secretary of Labor
Children who are 14 or 15 are not permitted to work in manufacturing, mining and other occupations that interfere with their schooling or their health and well-being
Children under 14 are not permitted to work unless it is for their parents or approved by the court for entertainment of athletic contracts
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Human Resource Advice
Understand the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
Pay at least the minimum wage.
Compensate employees with overtime pay after a 40-hour workweek.
Recognize that averaging hours worked over several weeks to avoid time-and-a-half pay for overtime is illegal.
Know the occupations exempted from minimum wage and maximum hours laws.
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Human Resource Advice (Cont.)
Avoid hiring illegal aliens who will work for less than the minimum wage.
Refrain from paying workers off-the-books.
Appreciate that children may not be employed during school hours or in certain jobs deemed hazardous.
Learn that children under the age of 14 may work for their parents
Be aware that children under the age of 14 who engage in athletics and entertainment must have their contracts approved by the court.
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Summary
The Federal minimum wage was raised to $7.25 per hour.
The minimum wage is not a living wage.
Each state may set a minimum wage that must be equal to or greater than the Federal minimum wage.
Many employers have outsourced jobs to Mexico as well as overseas.
Minimum wage in Mexico is 65 pesos or approximately $5 per day.
