1 The Fair Labor Standards Act is a comprehensive unchanging and unamended document which stands as a rock of security for all workers.

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2 A native of Somalia attempted to prove a hostile work environment based in sufficient part on a comment that his supervisor made, "You should learn to speak English with an American accent because your co-workers find it difficult to understand you." The court would likely deny the claim since that comment was not sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the conditions of the victim's employment and create an abusive working environment.

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3 Mary is an Inuit American in Alaska. She applied for a job washing dishes in a restaurant. Mary did not speak English well but instead used Inuktitut, the Inuit community's language. There were many Inuit people who worked at the restaurant including most of the management who were bilingual. The owner did not speak Inuktitut. Mary was refused employment due to her poor English skills. Mary's refusal of employment was illegal because it was not based on a business necessity to that job.

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4 A Title VII exception to gender discrimination is the claim that a particular job is dangerous. Therefore, a woman could be kept from a physically dangerous job.

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5 In Las Vegas Joe opened a new restaurant which was Midwest themed. Joe had run a number of restaurants in Rhode Island and he was replicating the model in Las Vegas. Joe built the restaurant, hired staff, and promoted it. After being open for one week, Joe issued the first round of paychecks. One waitress who worked 10 hours was given a check for $149.50: $49.50 before taxes which was consistent with the $8.25 minimum wage at 40% of the wage because of the tips exception to minimum wage plus $100 for tips. The waitress complained that this paycheck violated minimum wage since she was only paid $4.95 per hour before her tips. The waitress will likely prevail in a court of law.

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6 Title VII covers employers with 15 or more employees, therefore if an employer has 14 emploees, she does not fall under the jurisdiction of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

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7 A convenience store in Rhode Island which brought in about $300,000 worth of sales per year was paying it's employees $8.00 per hour until one day the boss did evaluations and claim, "You all aren't worth your keep" and promptly dropped them all down to $5.00 an hour. The employees were furious and brought a suit against the owner claiming that he violated minimum wage under the FLSA. The owner would likely prevail in court under the low sales exception.

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8 In a New York bakery with less than 10 employees, the owner hired a 17 year old to work 5 hour shifts which end before 9pm on Mondays and Tuesdays during the school year. The bakery should have no legal issues with this new schedule.

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