Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 - wikipedia Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 This article may be too technical for most readers to understand. Please help improve it to make it understandable to non-experts, without removing the technical details. ( November 2017 ) Department of Labor poster notifying employees of rights under the Fair Labor Standards Act The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 29 U.S.C. § 203 ( abbreviated as FLSA ) is a United States labor law that creates the right to a minimum wage, and `` time - and - a-half '' overtime pay when people work over forty hours a week. It also prohibited most employment of minors in `` oppressive child labor ''. It applies to employees engaged in interstate commerce or employed by an enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, unless the employer can claim an exemption from coverage. Contents 1 Practical application 1.1 Tipping 2 Legislative and administrative history 2.1 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act 2.2 1947 Portal - to - Portal Act 2.3 1949 Fair Labor Standards Amendment 2.4 1955 amendment 2.5 1961 amendment 2.6 1963 Equal Pay Act 2.7 1966 amendment 2.8 1967 Age Discrimination in Employment Act 2.9 1974 Fair Labor Standards Amendments 2.10 1977 Fair Labor Standards Amendments 2.11 1983 Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act 2.12 1985 Fair Labor Standards Amendments 2.13 1986 amendment 2.14 1986 Department of Defense Authorization Act 2.15 1989 Fair Labor Standards Amendments 2.16 1996 Small Business Job Protection Act 2.17 2004 rule change 2.18 2007 Fair Minimum Wage Act 2.19 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 2.20 2016 rule change 2.21 Proposed amendments 2.21. 1 2009 / 2013 Paid Vacation Act 2.21. 2 2014 Minimum Wage Fairness Act 2.21. 3 2015 Healthy Families Act 2.21. 4 2016 Wage Theft Prevention and Wage Recovery Act 3 See also 4 Notes 5 References 6 External links Practical application The Fair Labor Standards Act applies to `` employees who are engaged in interstate commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, or who are employed by an enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce '' unless the employer can claim an exemption from coverage. Generally, an employer with at least $500,000 of business or gross sales in a year satisfies the commerce requirements of the FLSA, and therefore that employer 's workers are subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act 's protections if no other exemption applies. Several exemptions exist that relieve an employer from having to meet the statutory minimum wage, overtime, and record - keeping requirements. The largest exceptions apply to the so - called `` white collar '' exemptions that are applicable to professional, administrative and executive employees. Exemptions are narrowly construed, as an employer must prove that the employees fit `` plainly and unmistakably '' within the exemption 's terms. The Fair Labor Standards Act applies to `` any individual employed by an employer '' but not to independent contractors or volunteers because they are not considered `` employees '' under the FLSA. Still, an employer can not simply exempt workers from the Fair Labor Standards Act by calling them independent contractors, and many employers have illegally and incorrectly classified their workers as independent contractors. Some employers similarly mislabel employees as volunteers. Courts look at the `` economic reality '' of the relationship between the putative employer and the worker to determine whether the worker is an independent contractor. Courts use a similar test to determine whether a worker was concurrently employed by more than one person or entity ; commonly referred to as `` joint employers ''. For example, a farm worker may be considered jointly employed by a labor contractor ( who is in charge of recruitment, transportation, payroll, and keeping track of hours ) and a grower ( who generally monitors the quality of the work performed, determines where to place workers, controls the volume of work available, has quality control requirements, and has the power to fire, discipline, or provide work instructions to workers ). In many instances, employers do not pay overtime properly for non-exempt jobs, such as not paying an employee for travel time between job sites, activities before or after their shifts, and activities to prepare for work but are central to work activities. If an employee is entitled to overtime, the employer must pay them one and a half times their `` regular rate of pay '' for all hours they work over 40 in the same work week. Employees employed in a ministerial role by a religiously affiliated employer are not entitled to overtime under the act. During World War II, the Army - Navy `` E '' Award for excellence in war production required maintaining the fair labor standards established under the Act. Tipping Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, an employer must pay each employee the minimum wage, unless the employee is `` engaged in an occupation in which the employee customarily and regularly receives more than $30 a month in tips. '' If the employee 's wage does not equal minimum wage, including tips, the employer must make up the difference. However, the employee must be allowed to keep all tips, either individually or through a tip pool. A tip pool may also contain only `` employees who customarily and regularly receive tips. '' `` The phrase ' customarily and regularly ' signifies a frequency which must be greater than occasional, but which may be less than constant. '' While the nomenclature of a job title is not dispositive, the job of `` busboy '' is explicitly validated for tip - pool inclusion by an authoritative source. `` A busboy performs an integral part of customer service without much direct interaction, but he does so in a manner visible to customers... Thus, for a service bartender to be validly included in a tip pool, he must meet this minimal threshold in a manner sufficient to incentivize customers to ' customarily and regularly ' tip in recognition ' of his services ( though he need not receive the tips directly ). Legislative and administrative History History of the federal minimum wage in real and nominal dollars. 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act The Fair Labor Standards Act was originally drafted in 1932 by Senator Hugo Black. Black 's proposal to require employers to adopt a thirty - hour workweek met stiff resistance. In 1938, a revised version of Senator Black 's proposal was passed that adopted an eight - hour day and a forty - hour workweek and allowed workers to earn wage for an extra four hours of overtime as well. According to the act, workers must be paid minimum wage and overtime pay must be one - and - a-half times regular pay. Children under eighteen can not do certain dangerous jobs, and children under the age of sixteen can not work during school hours. The Fair Labor Standards Act affected 700,000 workers, and President Franklin Roosevelt called it the most important piece of New Deal legislation since the Social Security Act of 1935. 1947 Portal - to - Portal Act In 1946, the United States Supreme Court ruled, in Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co., that preliminary work activities controlled by the employer and performed entirely for the employer 's benefit are properly included as working time under the FLSA. In response, Congress passed the Portal - to - Portal Act narrowing the Supreme Court 's decision. The 1947 Portal - to - Portal Act specified exactly what type of time was considered compensable work time. In general, as long as an employee is engaging in activities that benefit the employer, regardless of when they are performed, the employer has an obligation to pay the employee for the time. It also specified that travel to and from the workplace was a normal incident of employment and should not be considered paid working time. The act also stated that employees could only file a lawsuit for uncompensated time within two years of performing the work. Upon signing the act, President Harry Truman urged Congress to increase the minimum wage from 40 cents per hour to 65 cents per hour. 1949 Fair Labor Standards amendment The full effect of the FLSA of 1938 was postponed by the wartime inflation of the 1940s, which increased ( nominal ) wages to above the level specified in the Act. On October 26, 1949, President Truman signed the Fair Labor Standards Amendment Act of 1949 ( ch. 736, Pub. L. 81 -- 393, 63 Stat. 910, 29 U.S.C. § 201 ). The act defined an employee 's `` regular rate '' of pay for purposes of computation of overtime pay. The act specified that employees were covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act if they are `` directly essential '' to production of goods for interstate commerce. The act increased the minimum wage from 40 cents to 75 cents per hour, effective January 24, 1950. The act prohibited oppressive child labor in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce. The act also included a few new exemptions for special worker classes. 1955 amendment In 1955, President Dwight D. Eisenhower urged Congress to amend the FLSA in order to increase the number of employees who are covered by minimum wage laws and to increase the minimum wage itself to ninety cents per hour. At the time, retail workers and services workers were not covered by minimum wage laws. Congress passed an amendment to the FLSA, and President Eisenhower signed it on August 12, 1955. The amendment increased the minimum wage from seventy - five cents per hour to one dollar per hour, effective March 1, 1956. Despite a push by some members of Congress, retail workers, service workers, agricultural workers, and construction workers were still not required to be paid at least the minimum wage. 1961 amendment The 1961 amendment added another method of determining a type of coverage called enterprise coverage. Enterprise coverage applies only when the business is involved in interstate commerce and its gross annual business volume is a minimum of $500,000. All employees working for `` enterprises '' are then covered by the FLSA if the individual firms of the `` enterprise have a revenue greater than $500,000 per year. '' Under the original 1938 Act, a worker whose work is in the channels of interstate commerce is covered as an individual. `` Interstate commerce '' is interpreted so broadly that most work is included, such as ordering, loading, or using supplies from out of state, accepting payments from customers based on credit cards issued by out - of - state banks, and so on. The 1961 amendment also specified that coverage is automatic for schools, hospitals, nursing homes, or other residential care facilities. Coverage is also automatic for all governmental entities at whatever level of government, no matter the size. Coverage does not apply to certain entities not organized for business, such as churches and charitable institutions. The minimum wage level was again increased to $1.25 per hour. What could be considered a wage was specifically defined, and entitlement to sue for back wages was granted. 1963 equal pay Act The Equal Pay Act of 1963 was passed to amend the FLSA and make it illegal to pay some workers lower wages than others strictly on the basis on their sex. It is often summed up with the phrase `` equal pay for equal work. '' The Equal Pay Act allows unequal pay for equal work only when the employer sets wages pursuant to a seniority system, a merit system, a system that measures earnings by quantity or quality of production or other factors outside of sex. For the first nine years of the EPA, the requirement of equal pay for equal work did not extend to persons employed in an executive, administrative or professional capacity, or as an outside salesperson. Therefore, the EPA exempted white - collar women from the protection of equal pay for equal work. In 1972, Congress enacted the Education Amendments of 1972, which amended the FLSA to expand the coverage of the EPA to these employees, by excluding the EPA from the professional workers exemption of the FLSA. 1966 amendment The 1966 amendment expanded coverage to some farm workers and increased the minimum wage to $1.60 per hour in stages. The 1966 FLSA amendment also gave state and local government employees coverage for the first time. 1967 age discrimination in employment Act The Age Discrimination in Employment Act ( ADEA ) of 1967 prohibited employment discrimination against persons forty years of age or older. Some older workers were being denied health benefits based on their age and denied training opportunities prior to the passage of the ADEA. The act applies only to businesses employing more than twenty workers. 1974 Fair Labor Standards Amendments The 1974 amendment expanded coverage to include other state and local government employees that were not previously covered. Domestic workers also became covered and the minimum wage was increased to $2.30 per hour in stages. 1977 Fair Labor Standards Amendments The 1977 amendment increased the minimum wage in yearly increments through 1981 to $3.35 an hour. Changes were made involving tipped employees and the tip credit. Partial overtime exemption was repealed in stages for certain hotel, motel, and restaurant employees. 1983 migrant and seasonal agricultural worker Protection Act The Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act ( MSPA ), passed in 1983, was designed to provide migrant and seasonal farm workers with protections concerning pay, working conditions, and work - related conditions, to require farm labor contractors to register with the US Department of Labor and assure necessary protections for farm workers, agricultural associations, and agricultural employers. 1985 Fair Labor Standards Amendments An amendment permitted state and local government employers to compensate their employees ' overtime hours with paid time away from work in lieu of overtime pay. Paid time off must be given at the rate of one and one - half hours for each hour of employment for which overtime compensation would be required by the Fair Labor Standards Act. Other employers may not compensate employees with paid time off in lieu of overtime pay. The amendment exempted state and local governments from paying overtime for special detail work performed by fire - protection, law - enforcement, and prison - security employees. The amendment exempted state and local governments from paying overtime to employees working in a substantially different capacity from the employee 's regular full - time employment on a sporadic basis. The amendment stated that individuals who volunteer to perform services for a state or local government agency are not covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act if the individual receives no compensation or nominal compensation. The amendment stated that state and local legislative employees, other than legislative library employees, are not covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act. 1986 amendment In 1986, the Fair Labor Standards Act was amended to allow the United States Secretary of Labor to provide special certificates to allow an employer to pay less than the minimum wage to individuals whose earning or productive capacity is impaired by age, physical or mental deficiency, or injury. These employees must still be paid wages that are related to the individual 's productivity and commensurate with those paid to similarly located and employed nonhandicapped workers. 1986 Department of Defense Authorization Act The Department of Defense Authorization Act of 1986 repealed the eight - hour daily overtime requirements on all federal contracts. 1989 Fair Labor Standards Amendments In 1989, Senator Edward M. Kennedy introduced a bill to increase the minimum wage from $3.35 per hour to $4.55 per hour in stages. Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole supported increasing the minimum wage to $4.25 per hour along with allowing a minimum wage of $3.35 an hour for new employees ' first ninety days of employment for an employer. Secretary Dole said that President George H.W. Bush would veto any bill increasing the minimum wage to more than $4.25 per hour. By a vote of 248 to 171, the House of Representatives approved a bill to increase the minimum wage to $4.55 per hour in stages over a two - year period. The bill also allowed employers to pay new employees at least 85 percent of the minimum wage during the first sixty days of employment of a newly hired employee with no previous employment. The bill also increased the exemption from minimum wage law for small businesses from $362,500 to $500,000 of annual sales. By a vote of 61 to 39, the Senate approved a bill to increase the minimum wage to $4.55 per hour. President Bush vetoed the bill, calling the increase `` excessive ''. The House of Representatives unsuccessfully tried to override the veto, voting 247 to 178 to override, 37 votes short. By a vote of 382 to 37, the House of Representatives approved a revised bill that would increase the minimum wage to $3.80 per hour as of April, 1990, and $4.25 per hour as of April 1, 1991. The bill would allow a lower minimum wage for employees who are less than twenty years old. The bill eliminated different minimum wages for retail and non-retail businesses. The next week, the Senate approved the bill by a vote of 89 to 8. Senators Orrin Hatch, Steve Symms, and Phil Gramm were unsuccessful at passing minimum - wage exemptions for small businesses and farmers using migrant or seasonal workers. President Bush signed the bill two weeks later. 1996 small business job Protection Act The 1996 amendment increased the minimum wage to $5.15 an hour. However, the Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996 ( PL 104 - 188 ), which provided the minimum - wage increase, also detached tipped employees from future minimum - wage increases. Prior to 1996, tipped employees received 50 % of the prevailing minimum wage. The tipped employee minimum wage was frozen, under federal law at least, at $2.13 per hour ( 29 U.S.C. § 203 ). State laws that grant higher hourly wages remain in force. 2004 rule change On August 23, 2004, controversial changes to exemptions from the FLSA 's minimum wage and overtime requirements went into effect, making substantial modifications to the definition of an `` exempt '' employee. Low - level working supervisors throughout American industries were reclassified as `` executives '' and lost overtime rights. The changes were sought by business interests, which claimed that the laws needed clarification and that few workers would be affected. The Bush administration called the new regulations `` FairPay ''. However, other organizations, such as the AFL - CIO, claimed the changes would make millions of additional workers ineligible to obtain relief under the FLSA for overtime pay. Attempts in Congress to overturn the new regulations were unsuccessful. Conversely, some low - level employees ( particularly administrative - support staff ) that had previously been classified as exempt were now reclassified as non-exempt. Although such employees work in positions bearing titles previously used to determine exempt status ( such as `` executive assistant '' ), the 2004 amendment to the FLSA now requires that an exemption must be predicated upon actual job function and not job title. Employees with job titles that previously allowed exemption but whose job descriptions did not include managerial functions were now reclassified from exempt to non-exempt. 2007 Fair minimum wage Act On May 25, 2007, President Bush signed into law a supplemental appropriation bill ( H.R. 2206 ), which contains the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007. This provision amended the FLSA to provide for the increase of the federal minimum wage by an incremental plan, culminating in a minimum wage of $7.25 per hour by July 24, 2009. Further, American territories including American Samoa and Puerto Rico were to adopt the mainland minimum wage in a series of incremental increases. 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable care Act Section 4207 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( H.R. 3590 ) amends Section 7 to add a `` break time for nursing mothers '' provision. It specifies that employers shall provide break time for nursing mothers to express milk and that `` a place, other than a bathroom, that is shielded from view and free from intrusion from coworkers and the public '' should be available for employees to express milk. 2016 rule change In 2014, President Obama signed a presidential memorandum directing the Department of Labor to update the regulations defining which white collar workers are protected by the FLSA 's minimum wage and overtime standards. On May 18, 2016, President Barack Obama and Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez announced the publication of the Department of Labor 's final rule updating to overtime regulations expanding eligibility to millions of Americans. According to the rule change, employees earning a salary of less than $913 per week must be paid overtime, effective December 1, 2016. Adjustments in the threshold are expected to occur every three years, beginning January 1, 2020. On November 23, 2016, a United States District judge imposed an injunction, temporarily stopping the rule 's enforcement nationwide, in order to have time to determine whether the Department of Labor had the authority to issue the regulation. Proposed Amendments 2009 / 2013 Paid Vacation Act In May 2013, representative Alan Grayson proposed this act. https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/2096 It was a retry of his original act in 2009. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/111/hr2564 2014 minimum wage Fairness Act In April 2014, the United States Senate debated the Minimum Wage Fairness Act ( S. 1737 ; 113th Congress ). The bill would have amended the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 ( FLSA ) to increase the federal minimum wage for employees to $10.10 per hour over the course of a two - year period. The bill was strongly supported by President Barack Obama and many of the Democratic Senators, but strongly opposed by Republicans in the Senate and House. 2015 Healthy Families Act In January 2015, President Barack Obama asked Congress to pass the Healthy Families Act under which employers would be allowed to give employees one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours they work up to seven days or 56 hours of paid sick leave annually instead of paying overtime to the employees. The bill, as proposed, would have applied to employers with 15 or more employees for employees as defined in the Fair Labor Standards Act. 2016 wage Theft Prevention and wage Recovery Act In September 2016, Democratic members of the United States House and Senate introduced the Wage Theft Prevention and Wage Recovery Act. It would have increased employer liability under FLSA suits to the amount promised by the employer, rather than the minimum wage, prohibit pre-dispute arbitration agreements from precluding a claim of wage theft from court, make it possible to bring FLSA class action suits without the individual consent of workers who had their wages stolen, create automatic financial penalties for violations and create a discretionary ability for the Department of Labor to refer the violators to the Department of Justice for prosecution. The bill did not make it out of committee in either the House or the Senate. See also hide Wage regulation sources West Coast Hotel Co v Parrish, 300 US 379 ( 1937 ) Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, 29 USC § § 201 - 211 ILO Minimum Wage Fixing Convention 1970 ( no 131 ) Walling v Jacksonville Paper Co, 317 US 564 ( 1943 ) Auer v Robbins, Long Island Care at Home Ltd v Coke, Jewell Ridge Coal Corp v UMW, Anderson v Mount Clemens Pottery Co, Armour & Co v Wantock, 323 US 126 ( 1944 ) Steiner v Mitchell, 350 US 247 ( 1956 ) FLSA 1938, 29 USC § § 203 - 207 Walling v Helmerich and Payne Inc, 323 US 37 ( 1944 ) Christensen v Harris County, Portal to Portal Act of 1947, 29 USC § § 251 - 262 Consumer Credit Protection Act of 1968, 15 USC § § 1671 - 1675 Skidmore v Swift & Co, See US labor law and Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 United States labor law Timeline of children 's rights in the United States Frank Murphy Second Bill of Rights Employment discrimination law in the United States Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co. v. Muscoda Local No. 123 Garcia v. 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Question: fair labor standards act what did it do
Answer: the right to a minimum wage