In order to understand the Walsh-Healey Public Act of 1936, I did some research as how this act came into effect. In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Frances Perkins as Secretary of Labor to help assure that workplaces would be safe. Perkins created the Bureau of Labor Standards in 1934 primarily to promote safety and health for the entire work force. She outlined a set of policies priorities; a 40-hour work week; a minimum wage; unemployment compensation; worker’s compensation; abolition of child labor; direct federal aid to the states for unemployment relief; Social Security; a revitalized federal employment service; and universal health insurance. She made it clear to Roosevelt that his agreement with these priorities was
