Source: Good News Network
80 years ago today, the 40-hour work week was enacted by U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt with the Fair Labor Standards Act. The legislation established a minimum wage and guaranteed “time-and-a-half” payment for work beyond 8-hours a day in certain jobs, and prohibited most employment of minors in factory jobs that represent oppressive child labor.
(1938)More Good News on this Date:
- The Cathedral of Chartres was dedicated in France (1260)
- Sheffield F.C., the world’s first football club, was founded in Sheffield, England (1857)
- The United Nations was born and their Charter signed (1945)
- Zambia gained independence from the UK (1964)
- Paul McCartney received a medallion cast in rhodium after being declared the most successful composer of all time—having written or co-written (from 1962 to 1978) 43 songs that had sold…
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