1949 – Changed overtime compensation, defined a "regular rate," redefined the term "produced," raised the minimum wage from 40 cents to 75 cents per hour and extended child labor coverage. It also included a few new exemptions for special worker classes.
1955 – Increased minimum wage, to a $1.00 per hour.
1961 – Added another method of determining a type of coverage called enterprise coverage and specified that coverage is automatic for schools, hospitals, nursing homes, or other residential care facilities. Coverage is also automatic for all governmental entities at whatever level of government, no matter how big or small. Coverage does not apply to certain entities that are not organized for a business purpose, such as churches and charitable institutions. The minimum wage wasincreased to $1.25 per hour. What could be considered a wage was specifically defined, and entitlement to sue for back wages was granted.
1963 - Equal Pay Act of 1963 was passed to amend the FLSA and make it illegal to pay workers lower wages strictly on the basis on their sex.
1966 – Expanded coverage to some farm workers and increased the minimum wage to $1.60 per hour in stages and gave state and local government employees coverage for the first time.
1967 – Age Discrimination in Employment Act prohibited employment discrimination against persons forty years of age or older.
1974 – Coverage was expanded to include domestic workers, and other state and local government employees that were not previously covered. Minimum wage was also increased to $2.30 per hour in stages.
1977 – Increased the minimum wage in yearly increments through 1981 to $3.35 an hour. Changes were made involving tipped employees and the tip credit. Partial overtime exemption was repealed in stages for certain hotel, motel, and restaurant employees.
1983 – The The Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act provided migrant and seasonal farm workers with protections concerning pay, working conditions, and work-related conditions, to require farm labor contractors to register with the U.S. Department of Labor, and to assure necessary protections for farm workers, agricultural associations, and agricultural employers.
1985 – Permitted state and local government employers to compensate their employees' overtime hours with paid time away from work (compensatory time or “comp time”) in lieu of overtime pay. It also included modifications to ensure that true volunteer activities were not impeded or discouraged.
1986 – The Department of Defense Authorization Act of 1986 repealed the eight-hour daily overtime requirements on all federal contracts.
1989 – Increased the minimum wage to $4.25 per hour in stages. The distinction between retail and non-retail was eliminated. Construction, laundry and dry cleaning were no longer named as enterprises. Changes were made to the tip credit system. A “training wage” was established at 85% of minimum wage for workers less than 20 years of age and could be paid for up to 90 days under certain conditions.
1996 – Increased the minimum wage to $5.15 an hour; however, the Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996 which provided the minimum-wage increase, also detached tipped employees from future minimum-wage increases. Prior to 1996, tipped employees received 50% of the prevailing minimum wage. The tipped employee minimum wage was set at $2.13 per hour.
2004 – Changes to overtime regulations went into effect, making substantial modifications to the definition of an exempt employee. Low-level working supervisors throughout American industries were reclassified as executives and lost overtime rights.
2007 – Increased the federal minimum wage by an incremental plan, culminating in a minimum wage of $7.25 per hour by July 24, 2009.
2010 - Section 4207 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act amends Section 7 of the FLSA to add that employers shall provide break time for nursing mothers to express milk and that "a place, other than a bathroom, that is shielded from view and free from intrusion from coworkers and the public" should be available for employees to express milk.