As a HR Professional you must understand the laws and regulations, which affect employee compensation. Which of the following was the first to address a minimum wage for employees?

The Portal-to-Portal Act was enacted in 1947, making it the most recent of the options and far from the first minimum wage legislation in U.S. history.

The Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act was enacted in 1936, five years after Davis-Bacon, and applied minimum wage and overtime requirements to federal supply and manufacturing contracts rather than construction.

The Davis-Bacon Act, signed into law in 1931, was the first federal legislation to address minimum wage by mandating that laborers and mechanics on federal construction contracts be paid the locally prevailing wage. It established the foundational principle of a federally required minimum compensation standard, preceding the Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act (1936) and the Fair Labor Standards Act (1938).

The Fair Labor Standards Act was enacted in 1938 and established a broad national minimum wage, but it came seven years after the Davis-Bacon Act had already addressed minimum wages for federal construction workers.