Federal Minimum Wage Requirements

question 84

Multiple Choice

Federal minimum wage requirements:

• A) are designed to encourage full employment for minorities
• B) started in 1938 as part of the Fair Labor Standard Act
• C) establish entry level wages by occupation
• D) was to increase competition offered by itinerant contractors and their lower paid laborers
• E) all of the other choices

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