In keeping with the State’s “Live Free or Die” motto, the New Hampshire legislature last week took the unusual step of repealing the State’s minimum wage law. This action, supported by Republican legislators seeking to eliminate what they consider “job killing” regulations, has little practical effect, as the repealed New Hampshire minimum wage was harmonized
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Congressional Sub-Committee Holds Hearings On The Current State of the Fair Labor Standards Act/Additional DOL Developments
By Noel P. Tripp on
Posted in Department of Labor, Minimum Wage
Earlier this month, the House of Representatives’ Sub-Committee on Workforce Protection convened a hearing entitled “The Fair Labor Standards Act: Is It Meeting the Needs of the Twenty-First Century Workplace?” A panel of speakers, representing Human Resources associations, management counsel and the employee advocacy group the National Employment Law Project, appeared before the Sub-Committee and…