"The manufacturing industry is running out of low-cost sourcing destinations, and it's time to invest in making factories safer and better, rather than searching for cheaper labor, " says Auret van Heerden, chief executive of the Fair Labor Association, a monitoring group funded partly by Western companies.
People are reliant on the whims of leaders and technocrats to determine a fair compensation for their labor.
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Those who do work are denied a fair return for their labor by a tax system which penalizes successful achievement and keeps us from maintaining full productivity.
Though Nike committed to fair labor practices more than a decade ago, it still faces problems, including a report by the Associated Press last year that workers for its Converse brand in Indonesia were being slapped by supervisors, forced to stand in the scorching sun for hours at a stretch as punishment for not meeting quotas, and insulted as dogs and pigs by bosses.
There was a fair amount of debate going into the Labor Day weekend about whether the Fed would move at all today, but then the jobs report came out showing a significant deterioration through the summer.
"Our lawyers concluded that in the absence of a statement to the contrary from Congress, the Fair Labor Standards Act would apply, " domestic policy advisor Bruce Reed told The Associated Press.
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The plaintiff sued over violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act, planning to lead a class of fellow employees who say they were denied adequate break time.
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It's fair to say that labor support, including a well-organized get-out-the-vote effort in swing states with big industrial cities, helped make the election as close as it was in 2004 and in 2000 as well.
In addition to the raise, Apple has previously agreed to an independent investigation of their manufacturing facilities by their Fair Labor Association, seemingly in response to a New York Times investigation into unsafe working conditions.
The law, which amended the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, requires an employer to provide a reasonable break time for a woman to express breast milk for her nursing child.
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Sure, we have a couple of months of fair weather yet, and several more weeks of summer, but Labor Day is the last major summer holiday when friends and family gather around the hibachi, kettle grill, or gas grill, or whatever it is you cook on.
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Class actions involving credit reporting laws, debt collection and federal laws like the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act also can probably proceed, although the rules in this area get a little trickier.
When he was finished, he summoned to his chambers his longtime personal secretary James Bridge, the man who had helped him write Triumphant Democracy, one of the most persuasive tracts ever written in the cause of fair treatment of labor, all the more compelling for its author's position as a titan of industry.
This one promised that as long as Chinese people concentrated on getting rich instead of building a fair and transparent society, they and their children would enjoy the ever-ripening fruits of this labor.
The Fair Labor Standards Act, passed in 1938 to protect the rights of workers, has recently become a bonanza for private attorneys and a potential disaster for employers.
Under heavy pressure from unions to rule as it did, the administration made its decision following a Labor Department assessment that public sector work, from cleaning streets to processing government forms, qualified as work under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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