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is the lowest rate employees may legally pay for an hour of labor (Merriam, 741). The United States has a law to guarantee minimum hourly wages and to prevent the exploitation of workers and provide unskilled and part-time workers with a wage floor. People have ....

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.... an hour or $1,200 per year, 3. The general initiation of a 40 cents-an-hour, 40 hour workweek except in exceptional circumstances, 4. The prohibition of interstate shipment of goods produced with “oppressive child labor,” 5. The exception of agricultural workers and executives, administrative, supervisory and professional employees, and 6. Authorization of the Fair Labor Standard Board to appoint advisory committees to consider conditions in industries or occupations before establishing specific wage and hour standards (Ayres, Online). On June 25, 1938, President Roosevelt signed into law the Fair Labor Standards Act, which established the nati ....