Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Today in Labor History – April 17th

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a New York maximum hours law for bakery workers was unconstitutional under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment. Legislation limiting hours of employment was not passed until the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. – 1905

No comments:

Post a Comment

For now, we're opening this blog to Anonymous comments. This will continue as long as civility rules. Disagree as you may, just keep it clean and stay on topic. No profanity, and no name calling. We reserve the right to moderate such comments, though the person who made it may come back and reword their message in a more civil way.