20 apr 1938 anni - The Fair Standards of Labor Act is passed

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This legislation mandated that employers adopt an eight-hour workday and a forty-hour workweek. The Federal Minimum Wage is born with this act.

Although the legislation didn’t close the pay gap or require equal pay it did help women, and other low wage earners, claim the right to a minimum wage and to a 44 hour work week. and set a national minimum wage for all labor.

It also allowed workers to earn wage for an extra four hours of overtime, which would be paid at one and a half times the normal hourly wage.

Children were also protected by these new standards.

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