Fair Ball Act, bill aiming to further protect minor-league baseball players, to be introduced by U.S. senator

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin plans to introduce the Fair Ball Act to protect minor league baseball players from exemptions in wage-and-hour laws created by the Save America’s Pastime Act of 2018. The bill aims to roll back parts of the previous legislation, which allowed MLB to avoid paying minimum wage to minor-league players. Despite MLB’s voluntary acknowledgment of the minor-league union, Durbin seeks to pass the Fair Ball Act to ensure fair treatment for all baseball workers. the given text.

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