Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. The Fair Labor Standards Act, signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1938, set a minimum wage, overtime requirements and standards for child labor.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act into law on June 25, 1938.

The Fair Labor Standards Act contains provisions for the ... President Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigned to improve the plight of American workers in the run-up to his reelection bid in 1936; ...

This precedent upheld the constitutionality of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). ... Presidents from Jefferson to Lincoln to Roosevelt understood departmentalism.

Enter the Fair Labor Standards Act ... In 1938, FDR signed into law the Fair Labor Standards Act, which established that employers must pay overtime to employees working more than 40 hours a week.

During her 12 years as Roosevelt's labor secretary, she was credited with helping establish the Social Security Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, and the National Labor Relations Act that ...

“A self-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor,” wrote Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937, as he sent the legislation known as the Fair ...

FDR strongly supported the addition of child labor regulations as part of his Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which was primarily a minimum-wage and maximum-hours measure for adult workers ...

Three years after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld it in the U.S. v. Darby Lumber ruling, which toppled a related precedent.