The first minimum wage law was passed in 1938.
The first US minimum wage law was not enacted until 1938. The 1938 Act was applicable generally to employees engaged in interstate commerce or in the production of goods for interstate commerce and was set at $.25 an hour.
The federal minimum wage first went into effect in 1938. At that time, Congress set the minimum wage at 25 cents per hour.
Minimum wage and health insurance were first proposed by Harry S Truman in his Fair Deal proposal.
The world's first minimum wage law was enacted in New Zealand in 1894. The first minimum wage law in the US was enacted in 1912 in the State of Massachusetts. The first national law was in 1938. The amount was set at $0.30 (present day value of $4.70).
The minimum wage is $7.25, the same as federal minimum wage.
The first federal minimum wage law in the United States was passed in 1938 as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
there was no minimum wage then:)
Set by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1937, minimum wage $0.25 an hour. See this government website for more information, though it takes a while to load. http://www.dol.gov/whd/minwage/chart.htm
what was the minimum wage in the 1920
italy does not have a minimum wage
The Fair Labor Standards Act (1938) created the minimum wage system in use today, however, the minimum wage was first nationally mandated by the National Industry Recovery Act (1933).