The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 is a United States labor law enacted by Congress and signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on 25 June 1938. It established a federal minimum wage, required time and a half overtime pay for hours worked beyond forty in a week, and prohibited the employment of minors in what the Act calls oppressive child labor. It applies to employees engaged in interstate commerce or employed by an enterprise engaged in commerce or in producing goods for commerce, subject to a number of specific exemptions. Roosevelt himself called it the most important piece of New Deal legislation since the Social Security Act of 1935, and its wage, hour and child labor provisions remain the foundation of federal labor standards in the United States.
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