29 CFR 516 - October
22, 1938. The first version of 29 CFR 516 - Regulations on Records to be
Kept by Employers - Published in the Federal Register on October 22, 1938
29 CFR 541 - October
20, 1938. The first version of 29 CFR 541 - Defining and Delimiting the
Terms "Any Employee Employed in a Bona Fide Executive, Administrative,
Professional, or Local Retailing Capacity, or in the Capacity of Outside
Salesman" - Published in the Federal Register on October 20, 1938
Adkins v. Children's
Hospital, 261 U.S. 525 April 9, 1923: . The Supreme Court ruled that the
1918 District of Columbia Minimum Wage Act, establishing a federal minimum wage
for women and children employed in the District of Columbia, was an
unconstitutional infringement of liberty of contract.
Bailey v. Drexel Furniture
Co., 259 U.S. 20 (May 15, 1922): The Supreme Court ruled the 1919 Child
Labor Tax Law unconstitutional as an improper attempt by Congress to penalize
employers using child labor.
Bunting v. Oregon, 243 U.S.
426 (April 9, 1917): The Supreme Court declared unconstitutional an
Oregon law requiring payment of "overtime at the rate of time and one-half of
the regular wage" to employees of mills, factories, and manaufacturing
establishments
Code of
Federal Regulations (CFR)
United States v. Darby Lumber Co., 312 U.S. 100 (1941).
District of Columbia
minimum-wage law (40 Stat. 960) approved by Congress (September 19, 1918)
guaranteeing a minimum wage to women and children employed in the District of
Columbia
Eats are
going higher every day. A letter sent to the the office of Senator
Robert S. Kerr (D-OK) in 1953 from a constituent who requested help in getting
his employer to pay the minimumo wage because "Eats are going higher every
day." The letter was forwarded to the Wage and Hour Division.
Fair Labor Standards Act - Before the FLSA: Government Efforts to Regulate Minimum Wages, Maximum
Hours, and Oppressive Child Labor before passage of the Fair Labor Standards
Act of 1938
H.R. 7200: The Fair Labor
Standards Act as drafted by the Roosevelt administration, introduced in the
House of Representatives on May 24, 1937. An identical bill was introduced in
the Senate on the same day.
Fair Labor Standards Act: Introduction and Adoption of
the FLSA
"Further to Help those who Toil in Factory and on Farm": May 24, 1937, Message from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt recommending that the Congress enact the Fair Labor Standards Act
Growth of
Labor Law in the United States (1967) Prepared in the Bureau of Labor
Standard, United States Department of Labor.
Hammer v. Dagenhart,
247 U.S. 251 June 3, 1918: The Supreme Court declared the Keating-Owen
Child Labor bill unconstitutional. This decision was overruled by United States
v. Darby Lumber Co.
Historically Significant
Investigations. These include, but are not limited to, investigations that
set precedents, that lead to new laws or amendments to existing laws, are the
subject of substantive litigation when the court decision results in
modification of interpretations of laws, result in modification to enforcement
policy, or that draw substantive public interest.
Rose Manufacturing
Company. ("This case was watched with a great deal of interest by the
entire country because it is the first to be brought to jury trial since the
Fair Labor Standards Act went into effect on October 24, 1938, and it was only
after the trial had proceeded for several days and the Government had presented
its case that defendants suddenly pleaded guilty on February 16, 1940." Wage
Hour Division Press Release Issued May 16, 1940.)
Holden v. Hardy (69 U.S.366 - February 28, 1898),
, the Supreme Court approved a Utah law regulating the hours of labor for
men working in mines.
FLSA: Part 1 - June 2
to 5, 1937 (Title Page to Page 269)
FLSA: Part 2 - June 2
to 5, 1937 (Pages 270 to 708)
FLSA: Part 2 - June 2
to 5, 1937 (Pages 709 to Page 996)
FLSA: Part 3 - June
2 to 5, 1937 (Pages 997 to Page 1222)
The Kantor Report.
Report and recommendations of the presiding officer at public hearings on
proposed revisions of regulations, part 541, defining the terms "executive"
"administrative" "professional" "local retailing capacity" "outside salesman"
as contained in section 13(a)(1) of the Fair labor Standards Act. Report and
Recommendations March 3, 1958
Keating–Owen
Child Labor Act of 1916: Based on the 1906 child labor proposed bill by
Senator Albert J. Beveridge, this law banned the sale of products from any
factory, shop, or cannery that employed children under the age of 14, from any
mine that employed children under the age of 16, and from any facility that had
children under the age of 16 work at night or for more than 8 hours during the
day. The Keating-Owen Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by
President Woodrow Wilson.
Legal Field
Letters. Descriptive Word Index for Legal Field Letters Nos. 31, 86, 93 and
95. Office of the Solicitor, September 26, 1944
Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S.
45: (April 17, 1905) The Supreme Court ruled that The New York Bakeshop
Act of 1895 was unconstitutional because of the provisions limiting the number
of hours an employee could work. "Clean and wholesome bread does not depend
upon whether the baker works but ten hours per day or only sixty hours a week.
The limitation of the hours of labor does not come within the police power on
that ground."
Major Operating
Statistics of the Wage and Hour Division : December 31, 1938 to November 16, 1940
New York Bakeshop Act
of 1895: (May 2, 1895) An act by the State of New York that set some sanitation standards for bakeries and provided that they
could not employ their workers for more than 60 hours in any one week
Opinion Letters Issued by the National Office, Legal Field Letters, and Administrator Opinions
Listing of
Opinion Letters - February 1970 to May 1984 (PDF Copy)
Wage &
Hour Opinion Letter Index 1993 (PDF Copy)
Wage &
Hour Opinion Letter Index 1995 (PDF Copy)
Wage &
Hour Opinion Letter Index 1997 (PDF Copy)
Wage &
Hour Opinion Letter Index (State & Local Govt.) 1997 (PDF Copy)
Wage &
Hour Opinion Letter Index 1995 (PDF Copy)
Muller v. Oregon, 208 U.S.
412 (February 24, 1908): The Supreme Court ruled that legislation
limiting the hours of work for women did not violate the constitution, "even
when like legislation is not necessary for men and could not be
sustained."
President Roosevelt's Message to the Extraordinary Session of Congress on November15, 1937, recommending certain legislation
(Note: Comments regarding the
Fair Labor Standards Act are on pages 496 and 497):
Rose Manufacturing
Company. ("This case was watched with a great deal of interest by the
entire country because it is the first to be brought to jury trial since the
Fair Labor Standards Act went into effect on October 24, 1938, and it was only
after the trial had proceeded for several days and the Government had presented
its case that defendants suddenly pleaded guilty on February 16, 1940." Wage
Hour Division Press Release Issued May 16, 1940.)
S. 2475 - Fair Labor Standards Act: Introduced May 24, 1937, by Senator Hugo Black (D-AL); Amended bill introduced in the House of Reresentatives on April 28, 1938, by Representative Mary T. Norton (D-NJ); Passed by Congress on June 25, 1938
Schechter Corp. v. United
States, 295 U.S. 495 (May 27, 1935): The Supreme Court declared that the
National Recovery Act was unconstitutional.
Selected Records of the Wage and Hour Division
West Coast Hotel Co.
v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379 (March 29, 1937): The Supreme Court upheld the
constitutionality of minimum wage legislation enacted by the State of
Washington.
Definitions. Selected
definitions relating to information.