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  2. Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 - Wikipedia

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    The bill would have amended the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) to increase the federal minimum wage for employees to $10.10 per hour over the course of a two-year period. [75] The bill was strongly supported by President Barack Obama and many of the Democratic senators, but strongly opposed by Republicans in the Senate and House.

  3. Child labor laws in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The common legal opinion on federal child labor regulation reversed in the 1930s. Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938 regulating the employment of those under 16 or 18 years of age, and the Supreme Court upheld the law. [12] After this shift, the amendment has been described as "moot" [13] and effectively part of the ...

  4. United States v. Darby Lumber Co. - Wikipedia

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    United States v. Darby Lumber Co., 312 U.S. 100 (1941), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court upheld the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, holding that the U.S. Congress had the power under the Commerce Clause to regulate employment conditions. [1]

  5. The Forgotten History of the Child Labor Amendment - AOL

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    The selective nature of the FLSA has shaped the landscape of child labor regulation for generations of young people in the U.S. And now, many states want to roll back the limited protections that ...

  6. Why do we work 9 to 5? The history of the eight-hour workday

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    But a bill aiming to temporarily institute a 30-hour workweek, which passed in the Senate, failed in the House. ... In 1938, FDR signed into law the Fair Labor Standards Act, ...

  7. $7.25 for Your Thoughts: What You Should Know About ... - AOL

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    Jacquelyn Martin/AP Last month, President Barack Obama included in his State of the Union address a plea to Congress to raise the hourly minimum wage to $10.10. Some people support the idea.

  8. Eight-hour day movement - Wikipedia

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    The eight-hour day might have been realized for many working people in the US in 1937, when what became the Fair Labor Standards Act (29 U.S. Code Chapter 8) was first proposed under the New Deal. As enacted, the act applied to industries whose combined employment represented about twenty percent of the US labor force.

  9. Wage and Hour Division - Wikipedia

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    FLSA: The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is the federal law commonly known for minimum wage, overtime pay, child labor, recordkeeping, and special minimum wage standards applicable to most private and public employees. FLSA provides the agency with civil and criminal remedies, and also includes provisions for individual employees to file ...