F.D.R. Fair Labor Standards Act- 1938

In a sense the culmination of decades of activism, this law mandates an eight-hour day and forty-hour week (with “time-and-a-half” for overtime), the abolition of child labor, and a national minimum wage. It applies to employees whose work relates to interstate commerce. In subsequent decades the law is expanded and improved upon many times, for instance by raising the federal minimum wage and by expanding coverage to some farm workers (in 1966).