Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act

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The Walsh-Healey Act or Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act, passed in 1936 as part of the New Deal, is a United States federal law which protects employees of government contractors whose contracts exceed USD 10,000. For these employees, it establishes overtime as hours worked in excess of 8 hours per day or 40 hours per week, sets the minimum wage equal to the prevailing wage in an area, and sets standards for child and convict labor, as well as job sanitation and safety standards.

[edit] External links

• Slide from a Purdue University class.
• Federal Labor Laws, a list from Congressional Digest.
• The Department in the New Deal and World War II at the US Department of Labor.
• Text of the Act, 41 USC 35 et seq., at the Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute.