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Second Circuit Rejects Prison FLSA Claim, Modifies Standard
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
January, 1997, page 1
[Editor's Note: The following article is the first of a three part series on prison slave labor. The other two articles will appear in the next two issues of PLN.]
Filed under:
Prison Industries,
Prison Labor,
Prisoner Privileges,
Education,
Fair Labor Standards Act,
Ashurst Summers Act.
Location:
New York.
The court of appeals for the second circuit held that the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. § …
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