An Act to provide for the establishment of fair labor standards in employments in and affecting interstate commerce, and for other purposes
Acronyms (colloquial)
FLSA
Enacted by
the 75th United States Congress
Effective
June 25, 1938; 85 years ago (1938-06-25)
Citations
Public law
Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 75–718
Statutes at Large
52 Stat. 1060 through 52 Stat. 1070 (3 pages)
Legislative history
Signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 25, 1938
United States Supreme Court cases
List
United States v. American Trucking Ass'ns, 310 U.S. 534 (1940)
United States v. Darby Lumber Co., 312 U.S. 100 (1941)
OPP Cotton Mills, Inc. v. Administrator of Wage and Hour Div., Dept. of Labor, 312 U.S. 126 (1941)
Cudahy Packing Co. v. Holland, 315 U.S. 357 (1942)
Williams v. Jacksonville Terminal Co., 315 U.S. 386 (1942)
AB Kirschbaum Co. v. Walling, 316 U.S. 517 (1942)
Skidmore v. Swift & Co., 323 U.S. 134 (1944)
Brooklyn Savings Bank v. O'Neil, 324 U.S. 697 (1945)
Mitchell v. Robert DeMario Jewelry, Inc., 361 U.S. 288 (1960)
Arnold v. Ben Kanowsky, Inc., 361 U.S. 388 (1960)
Maryland v. Wirtz, 392 U.S. 183 (1968)
National League of Cities v. Usery, 426 U.S. 833 (1976)
Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority, 469 U.S. 528 (1985)
Tony and Susan Alamo Found. v. Secretary of Labor, 471 U.S. 290 (1985)
Moreau v. Klevenhagen, 508 U.S. 22 (1993)
Auer v. Robbins, 519 U.S. 452 (1997)
Alden v. Maine, 527 U.S. 706 (1999)
Christensen v. Harris County, 529 U.S. 576 (2000)
Breuer v. Jim's Concrete of Brevard, Inc., 538 U.S. 691 (2003)
IBP, Inc. v. Alvarez, 546 U.S. 21 (2005)
Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp., 563 U.S. 1 (2011)
Christopher v. Smithkline Beecham Corp., 567 U.S. 142 (2012)
Genesis HealthCare Corp. v. Symczyk, 569 U.S. 66 (2013)
Sandifer v. United States Steel Corp., 571 U.S. 220 (2014)
Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc. v. Busk, 574 U.S. 27 (2014)
Perez v. Mortgage Bankers Ass'n, No. 13-1041, 575 U.S. ___ (2015)
Tyson Foods, Inc. v. Bouaphakeo, No. 14-1146, 577 U.S. ___ (2016)
Encino Motorcars v. Navarro, No. 15-415, 579 U.S. ___ (2016)
Encino Motorcars v. Navarro, No. 16-1362, 584 U.S. ___ (2018)
Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, No. 16-285, 584 U.S. ___ (2018)
Parker Drilling Management Services, Ltd. v. Newton, No. 18-389, 587 U.S. ___ (2019)
Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. v. Hewitt, No. 21-984, 598 U.S. ___ (2023)
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[1] (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.[2][3] It also prohibits employment of minors in "oppressive child labor".[4] It applies to employees engaged in interstate commerce or employed by an enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce,[5] unless the employer can claim an exemption from coverage. The Act was enacted by the 75th Congress and signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1938.
^Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 75–718, ch. 676, 52 Stat. 1060, June 25, 1938
^Samuel, Howard (December 2000). "Troubled passage: the labor movement and the Fair Labor Standards Act" (PDF). Monthly Labor Review. United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved August 20, 2014.
^"History - Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938". U.S. Department of Labor. August 15, 2013. Archived from the original on August 15, 2013.
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