Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1961
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The Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1961 were U.S. federal legislative changes that expanded and strengthened the Fair Labor Standards Act, notably broadening coverage of minimum wage and overtime protections to additional categories of workers.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| FLSA Amendments of 1961 | 1 |
| Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1961 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T746266 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1961 Context triple: [Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1966, relatedTo, Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1961]
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Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1966
The Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1966 were U.S. federal legislative changes that expanded minimum wage and overtime protections to additional categories of workers and industries under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1949
The Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1949 were U.S. federal labor law revisions that expanded and strengthened minimum wage, overtime, and child labor protections originally established by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
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C.
Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1974
The Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1974 were U.S. federal legislative changes that expanded minimum wage and overtime protections to additional categories of workers, including many public-sector and domestic employees.
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D.
Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1977
The Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1977 were U.S. federal legislative changes that updated wage and hour protections, including raising the minimum wage and expanding coverage under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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E.
Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1985
The Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1985 are U.S. federal legislative changes that, among other provisions, clarified and modified wage, hour, and overtime rules—particularly for public sector employees—under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1961 Target entity description: The Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1961 were U.S. federal legislative changes that expanded and strengthened the Fair Labor Standards Act, notably broadening coverage of minimum wage and overtime protections to additional categories of workers.
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A.
Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1966
The Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1966 were U.S. federal legislative changes that expanded minimum wage and overtime protections to additional categories of workers and industries under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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B.
Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1949
The Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1949 were U.S. federal labor law revisions that expanded and strengthened minimum wage, overtime, and child labor protections originally established by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
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C.
Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1974
The Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1974 were U.S. federal legislative changes that expanded minimum wage and overtime protections to additional categories of workers, including many public-sector and domestic employees.
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D.
Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1977
The Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1977 were U.S. federal legislative changes that updated wage and hour protections, including raising the minimum wage and expanding coverage under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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E.
Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1985
The Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1985 are U.S. federal legislative changes that, among other provisions, clarified and modified wage, hour, and overtime rules—particularly for public sector employees—under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States federal statute
ⓘ
labor law ⓘ |
| amends |
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
ⓘ
linked to:
Fair Labor Standards Act
|
| appliesTo |
certain public sector employers
ⓘ
private sector employers ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction |
United States federal government
ⓘ
linked to:
United States government
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| enforcedBy |
United States Department of Labor
ⓘ
Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor ⓘ |
| expandsCoverageTo |
additional employees previously not covered by FLSA
ⓘ
certain service workers ⓘ employees in enterprises engaged in interstate commerce ⓘ employees in larger retail and service enterprises ⓘ |
| field | labor and employment law ⓘ |
| hasLegalEffectOn |
employees covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act
ⓘ
employers engaged in interstate commerce ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalFramework | Fair Labor Standards Act framework ⓘ |
| legalSubject |
child labor regulation
ⓘ
coverage of employees under FLSA ⓘ minimum wage ⓘ overtime pay ⓘ |
| legalSystem | common law influenced federal statutory system ⓘ |
| legislativeBody | United States Congress ⓘ |
| partOf | United States labor law ⓘ |
| purpose |
to expand coverage of the Fair Labor Standards Act
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to strengthen minimum wage protections ⓘ to strengthen overtime protections ⓘ |
| regulates |
employment of certain categories of workers
ⓘ
hours of work ⓘ overtime compensation ⓘ wages ⓘ |
| shortName |
FLSA Amendments of 1961
ⓘ
linked to:
Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1961
|
| subjectOf |
historical analyses of expansion of FLSA coverage
ⓘ
legal scholarship on U.S. wage and hour law ⓘ |
| topic |
coverage thresholds for enterprises
ⓘ
federal minimum wage policy ⓘ federal overtime standards ⓘ |
| typeOfAmendment | substantive amendment to existing labor statute ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1961 Description of subject: The Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1961 were U.S. federal legislative changes that expanded and strengthened the Fair Labor Standards Act, notably broadening coverage of minimum wage and overtime protections to additional categories of workers.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1961