Re:U.S. Supreme Court rejects Amazon warehouse worker wage a...
by elliekelly on Monday October 07, 2019 @06:01PM
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And it looks like Congress was particularly snippy towards their colleagues in the Judicial branch when they passed the law[1] in question:
> The Congress finds that the Fair Labor Standards Act ... has been interpreted judicially in disregard of long-established customs, practices, and contracts between employers and employees, thereby creating wholly unexpected liabilities, immense in amount and retroactive in operation, upon employers with the results that, if said Act as so interpreted or claims arising under such interpretations were permitted to stand, (1) the payment of such liabilities would bring about financial ruin of many employers ...
And that's only the first of ten+ chicken-little scenarios laid out in the Congressional Findings section.
> The Congress finds that the Fair Labor Standards Act ... has been interpreted judicially in disregard of long-established customs, practices, and contracts between employers and employees, thereby creating wholly unexpected liabilities, immense in amount and retroactive in operation, upon employers with the results that, if said Act as so interpreted or claims arising under such interpretations were permitted to stand, (1) the payment of such liabilities would bring about financial ruin of many employers ...
And that's only the first of ten+ chicken-little scenarios laid out in the Congressional Findings section.
[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/29/251