What does it mean if your job is âexemptâ? That is simple too: Your employment contract is not subject to the 40-hour work week, minimum wage, and overtime rules. Basically, the job is âexemptâ from the protections of the FLSA.
Sanitary napkins have been used since the 10th century, but not one person is given credit for their invention; the disposable pads appear to have been first commercially available from around 1895 through Curads and Hartmann's. This Site Might Help You.
c.1400, padell small spade, from Medieval Latin padela, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Latin patella small pan, little dish, plate, diminutive of patina (see pan (n.)). Meaning short oar with a wide blade is from 1620s. As an instrument used for beating clothes (and slaves, and schoolboys), it is recorded from 1828, American English.