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The workweek length has remained around 40 hours per week for full time employees since the 1940s ? True or False

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1938: Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act, which required employers to pay overtime to all employees who worked more than 44 hours a week. They amended the act two years later to reduce the work week to 40 hours.
1940: The 40-hour work week became U.S. law.


Answer: True - it was made a U.S. law
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