{"id":5538,"date":"2016-10-16T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T09:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/?p=5538"},"modified":"2016-10-16T09:00:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T09:00:33","slug":"history-fair-labor-standards-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/history-fair-labor-standards-act\/","title":{"rendered":"A History of the Fair Labor Standards Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"JUSTIFY\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/attorneys\/lane-v-erickson\">Lane V. Erickson<\/a>, Attorney<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"JUSTIFY\">The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (abbreviated as FLSA; also referred to as the Wages and Hours Bill) is a federal statute of the United States that changed employment relationships dramatically. \u3000The FLSA introduced the forty-hour workweek, established a national minimum wage, guaranteed &#8220;time-and-a-half&#8221; for overtime in certain jobs, and prohibited most employment of minors in &#8220;oppressive child labor&#8221;, a term that is defined in the statute. It applies to employees engaged in interstate commerce or employed by an enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, unless the employer can claim an exemption from coverage.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"JUSTIFY\">The FLSA was originally drafted in 1932 by Senator Hugo Black, who was later appointed to the Supreme Court in 1937. However, Black&#8217;s proposal to require employers to adopt a thirty-hour workweek was unpopular with employers who were used to working employees up to 12 hours a day. In 1938 a revised version of Black&#8217;s proposal was passed that adopted an eight-hour day and a forty-hour workweek and allowed workers to earn wage for an extra four hours of overtime as well. Children under eighteen were prohibited from certain dangerous jobs, and children under the age of sixteen could work during school hours.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/history-fair-labor-standards-act\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading A History of the Fair Labor Standards Act\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lane V. Erickson, Attorney The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (abbreviated as FLSA; also referred to as the Wages and Hours Bill) is a federal statute of the United States that changed employment relationships dramatically. \u3000The FLSA introduced the forty-hour workweek, established a national minimum wage, guaranteed &#8220;time-and-a-half&#8221; for overtime in certain jobs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A History of the Fair Labor Standards Act|Racine Olson<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If you have questions about the FLSA, or how it may affect you individually or your business, we can help. 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