Minor League Pay
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The Fair Labor Standards Act and the Federal Minimum Wage
The Fair Labor Standards Act created the federal minimum wage and overtime rules. Lawmakers are very careful about how they word it because they know plenty of companies are not going to like this law. The Supreme Court struck down state minimum wage laws as unconstitutional for decades until a woman named Elsie Parrish came on the scene.
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