The essence of labor laws and their respective posters is to ensure, protect and safeguard the interest of the American working class at the various workplaces they may be plying their trades. For an organized systemic standards to obtain across the length and breadth of all the employment sectors of the nation, various labor laws with their accompanying labor law posters ranging from the Minimum Wage, Safety and Health, Discrimination, Child Labor, Fair Labor Standards, Family and Medical Leave, and Employee Polygraph Protection.
Both the federal and states governments provide different but complementary sets of labor laws posters to regulate the employment relationship between the employers and employees. Though the states labor laws posters are superseded by the federal labor law posters, the states labor laws posters are not of less importance due to the fact that they address more localize issues of labor than the federal labor law posters that are of general nature covering the whole nation.
All employers are mandated to post all the labor laws posters concerning their businesses at areas that are easily accessible to the employees in the workplace for the employees to be well aware of their rights, privileges, and obligations in relation to the work they hold. The importance of meeting the criteria as to posting of labor laws posters and requirements of such posters cannot be overemphasizes due to the critical role play by the labor laws posters in the delivery of the awareness of the rights and conditions of service to the employees for them to consciously protect themselves.
Taking an employer in the State of Florida for example, by posting the federal minimum wage labor law poster of $7.25 per hour without putting up the Florida labor law poster minimum wage of $7.31 per hour will lead to employees under such conditions to be underpaid with the federal minimum wage rate as the applicable rate, which is a gross violation of the labor laws posters requirements, since the labor law poster with the higher benefits is applicable in a situation of conflict between the federal and state labor laws.
As the saying goes prevention is always better than cure, for employers not to be caught napping due to the violations of the requirements of labor laws posters that may lead to various penalties and embarrassing lawsuits, employers should always update and stick to fulfilling the stipulations of the labor laws and regulations as enumerated in the labor laws posters.
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