When crafting an internship program, make sure it complies with the U.S. Labor Department's Fair Labor Standards Act, says Joseph H.
The ideals it supports are slavery-free labor, fair wages, and no animal testing, vegan products.
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"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.
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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Apple also said it is joining the Fair Labor Association, agreeing to outside monitoring of its suppliers.
This is surely not an outcome sought by those who advocate revising the rules of the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act.
In the U.S., President Franklin Roosevelt spearheaded the federal charge for the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) that was passed in 1938.
Stinebrickner-Kauffman is critical of the non-profit group, the Fair Labor Association, which Apple has invited to audit most of its manufacturing facilities in China.
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To prove just how serious the tech giant was about their concerns, Apple partnered with the Fair Labor Association, launching an audit of their supply chain.
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People want to do the right thing, she says, citing growing excitement around organic food, fair labor practices, and even faux fur and leather as evidence.
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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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.
As we celebrate Labor Day, we should also give thanks to those who came before us and who strived to improve working conditions and create fair labor laws.
The labor relations tribunal Fair Work Australia stepped in at the behest of the government and ordered an end to the two-day dispute to avoid damage to the tourism industry.
The Fair Labor Association was established in 1998, after the Western world discovered that much of our apparel and footwear was being manufactured in appalling working conditions in Asian factories.
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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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"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 Pentagon and the State Department, under fire for the use of security contractors, have largely ignored the issue of fair labor practices among its contractors and subcontractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), prevailing employees can recover double damages for up to three years of lost overtime or other pay, as well as their costs and legal fees.
In his book, When Affirmative Action Was White, Ira Katznelson details how supposedly color blind legislation and programs -such as the GI Bill and the Fair Labor Standards Act - were manipulated to exclude blacks.
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.
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.
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.
During his trip last week to the Los Angeles meeting of the big-spending afl-cio, where he promised new rules requiring all businesses that contract with the Federal Government to meet fair-labor standards, Gore made time for private chats with two significant Democratic Party supporters: supermarket mogul Ronald Burkle and real estate investor Stanley Hirsh.
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.
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.
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.
"The President supports free and fair trade agreements that include strong labor and environmental protections, " she said.
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