Plumber Tom Iacovacci never had trouble finding work in Stamford. Now he collects unemployment. That's to be expected, given the length and depth of the nation's economic recession. But something else is happening.
HOUSTON, Feb. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Compass systematically violated federal labor laws by denying overtime pay to its mortgage banking officers, Lee & Braziel, LLP and the Rowdy Meeks Legal Group, LLC ...
But let's not forget that until the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 American children were also put to work in sweatshops, mills and fields. During the Great Depression families relied on the extra income that children could provide.