Q: When did employees in the U.S. start working only five days a week and did people initially reject the idea?
A: The five-day, 40-hour workweek evolved over a period of years. While some businesses saw advantages in having employees work fewer hours, others predicted a decline in productivity. On the flip side, many employees feared that working fewer hours would translate into less pay.
People are also reading… In the latter half of the 19th century, workers in the building trades and similar industries marched for better working conditions. The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, originally part of the Department of Interior, began collecting employment data in 1884, and published its First Annual Report containing a study on industrial depressions in 1886.In 1915, the bureau’s commissioner, Royal Meeker, launched the Monthly Labor Review.
In 1933, under the"New Deal" program, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's advisers developed a National Industrial Recovery Act . “Employers signed more than 2.3 million agreements, covering 16.3 million employees,” the article says. “Signers agreed to a workweek between 35 and 40 hours and a minimum wage of $12 to $15 a week and undertook, with some exceptions, not to employ youths under 16 years of age.”“The Cotton Textile Code was the first of these and one of the most important,” the article says.
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