It is of course a sign of our times for employers to contract out work rather than hire employees.
The FLSA not the only thing employees get rights from
The Fair Labor Standards Act touches on a range of different employment-related issues. There are a variety of requirements this federal law puts on employers, including requirements regarding recordkeeping, overtime and wages. Some of these requirements make it so employers are required to provide employees with certain things. For example, the FLSA generally requires employers to provide employees with overtime pay when they have them work overtime (unless the employee falls into one of the exempt categories).
Noncompete agreements touch many U.S. workers
Among the things that can have significant impacts on workers is whether a noncompete agreement is among the contracts they have entered into in relation to their job. For one, such agreements can have major implications regarding a worker's options and situation when their employment at their current job ends.
Modernizing overtime rules for white-collar workers: an update
In a simpler era of America's economic life, the distinction between white-collar workers and blue-collar workers made some sense. White-collar folks generally worked in offices and were salaried. Blue-collar folks generally worked in factories and punched a clock.
For young college grads, pay gaps between the genders increasing
Statistics from a think tank (the Economic Policy Institute) indicate that, in recent years, the pay gap between the genders has been widening when it comes to young college-educated workers. The gap had a particularly big increase over the past year, with the average pay for young female college graduates dropping from 84 percent to around 79 percent of the average pay for young male college graduates between last year and this year.
