Fair Labor Standards Quotes

Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.

Our intention is to clarify and modernize overtime pay rules.

There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.

Undocumented workers can't report if they're not being paid overtime, or if their health and safety laws are being violated, of if they're not getting the minimum wage. And so a lot of times companies prefer to hire them in order to take advantage of them. We've got to crack down on those employers.

The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.

Labor Day, I suppose set by an Act of Congress. Everything we do nowadays is either by, or against, Acts of Congress. How Congress knew anything about Labor is beyond us.

We must ensure strong, fair and robust workplace rights remain in our country's DNA.

We're giving jobs to people who would otherwise be out of work if we weren't exploiting cheap labor.

Let's defend overtime and go after wage theft.

Through periodic increases over the next three decades under Democratic and Republican administrations alike, the nation achieved one of the fundamental goals of a just society, which is that no one who works for a living should have to live in poverty.

With global rules for global supply chains, we can end corporate greed.

Goods produced under conditions which do not meet a rudimentary standard to decency should be regarded as contraband and not allowed to pollute the channels of international commerce.