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Economic Reality Applied to FLSA Claims
Loaded on Sept. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
September, 1995, page 14
Prisoners' struggle to be paid the minimum wage for their labor has met yet another setback. Nevada statute § 209.461(1)(b) requires all state prisoners, not in segregation or with a medical excuse, to work or go to school forty hours a week. Walter Morgan is a Nevada state prisoner employed …
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