The Fair Labor Standards Act was one of the earliest American workplace laws to contain an explicit anti-retaliation provision. Modeled after the anti-retaliation provisions in other New Deal legislation, including the National Labor Relations Act enacted just three years prior, the FLSA’s original text in 1938 made it unlawful “for any person … to discharge
Rachel Edelson
Rachel Edelson is a law clerk in the Labor Department and is a member of the Employment Litigation & Counseling Groups.
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