AMENDMENT OF FAIR LABOR ACT.

            Amendment of statutory minimum wage and a maximum number of hours aims at eliminating undesirable economic effects it has on employees and the benefits employers will realize. Raising and establishing a minimum wage will apply to all employees and employers in all the states. This includes all organization no matter the size such as hospitals, schools, nursing homes and residential care amenities excluding charitable organization and churches (Fingerman, 2013).  This amendment of the Fair Labor Standard Act will be a federal law since it will affect all the states. This applies to both the public and private organization (Fingerman, 2013). The proposal to change this law is based on the fluctuating economy. Preliminary work controlled by the employer and the entire performance for the employees are included as working time under this act.

     To amend this act, overtime compensation and an extent of child labor is part of the coverage.  Overtime should be made one and a half times based on the regular rates of pay for any hour worked over 40 in the same week (Fingerman, 2013). Bearing in mind compensable work and its time, in general, is viewed from a different perspective since employees are engaged in activities that will benefit the employers regardless of the time the activities were performed (Fingerman, 2013). . This means that the proprietor has a responsibility to reward the employees for the time spent. Employees have to travel in and out of the workplace in order to offer their services to the employer. This movement should be catered for by the employer as traveling or transport allowance. A better proposal such as offering means of transport such as staff bus and fuelling vehicles to a class of manager to work-related issues should be incorporated. This will eliminate absenteeism or lateness at work. Amendment of this law is as a result of employers left employers to bear the expense of transport all by themselves (Fingerman, 2013).

    According to Belman & Wolfson (2014) increasing the minimum wage to 10.10 dollars per hour will play a great deal in assisting low earning employees meet their basic needs as well as motivating them to work harder and better. The previous law left the employers to decide how much to pay to their employees. This resulted in very low wages since the sole aim of employers is to maximize profits and minimize cost (Belman & Wolfson, 2014). The change in working hours is to tone the difference in hours between private and public organization. The private organization will demand longer hours as compared to those of public. By amending this law a uniformity in hours worked will be achieved. This will enhance employees’ efficiency and productivity at work since the hours will be reasonable. The amendment of this act is as a result of unfavorable working hours that was not considered in the previous law (Belman & Wolfson, 2014)..

    By amending of this law employees who were classified as low-level employees mostly the administrative support staff were classified as exempt employees but since the amendment, they were reclassified as nonexempt. (Belman & Wolfson, 2014). This will change and actual ground for exemption will be based on work done and not the title.  Workers with disability are also to be incorporated in the minimum wage. This is to enable equal chances to persons with disability so that they cannot be discriminated. Amending this act of minimum wage through the cooperation and adherence of employers will lead to better results (Belman & Wolfson, 2014).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reference

Belman, D., & Wolfson, P. J. (2014). What does the minimum wage do?; Kalamazoo, Michigan :            W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.

Fingerman, B. (2013). Maximum Minimum Wage; Berkeley, California: Image Comics.