![Today in labor history: Fair Labor Standards Act signed by Roosevelt](https://peoplesworld.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/fairlabor.jpg)
On this day in 1938 President Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act. The new law established a shorter work week (44 hours), prohibited child labor, set a minimum wage and provided time and one-half for overtime.
Senator Hugo Black, author of the law, initially proposed a 30-hour week. Close to 700,000 workers were benefited from the legislation.
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