The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Opinion Letters and Administrator Opinions Legal Field Letters
Press Releases Issued by
the National Office Annual Reports
Interim Report of the Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division For the Period August 15 to December 31, 1938 Reports to Congress January 16, 1939: Hearings before the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Seventy-Sixth Congress, First Session on the First Deficiency Appropriation Bill for 1939 (147 pages). This report includes statements of the Wage and Hour Division Administrator Elmer F. Andrews, Budget Officer M. K. Wood, Assistant Labor Department Budget Officer John R. DeMorest, and Assistant to the Secretary of Labor Richardson Saunders (see pages numbered 54 to 95). This report also includes statements of Katharine F. Lenroot, Chief of the Children’s Bureau, and of Beatrice McConnell, Director of the Industrial Division (see pages numbered 95 to 104).
January 30, 1939: Hearings before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Seventy-Sixth Congress, First Session on H. R. 2868 (155 pages), a bill making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the Fiscal Year ending June 30, 1939, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939 (155 pages). This report includes statements of Elmer F. Andrews, Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division, Budget Officer M. K. Wood, and Assistant Labor Department Budget Officer John R. DeMorest (see pages numbered 83 to 90). This report also includes statements of Katharine F. Lenroot, Chief of the Children’s Bureau (see pages numbered 90 to 94).
Major Operating Statistics 1938 - 1940
Historically Significant Investigations
"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.
Inspector's Handbook - 1942Inspector's Handbook Containing Operating Instructions, Rulings, Interpretations, Regulations, Orders and Inspection Information. Prepared By FIELD OPERATIONS BRANCH, October 1942
Eats are
going higher every dayIn 1953, the office of Senator Robert S. Kerr (D-OK) forwarded a letter to Wage and Hour from a constituent who requested help in receiving the minimum wage because "Eats are going higher every day."
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RESOURCES The Coverage of the Fair Labor Standards Act and Other Problems in its Interpretation by Frank E. Cooper. 6 Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 40, No. 3 (Summer 1939), pp. 333-352. Available at: https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/lcp/vol6/iss3/3