Amending the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, Hearings...S. 662, S. 770, S. 1127, S. 1437, S. 1447, S. 2404, S. 2748, S. 2963, S. 3310, May 1956 |
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... wages in the retail industry which can be gathered . We think it is a very helpful and significant contribution to ... hour law . Last year I requested the Congress to broaden the coverage of minimum wage . I repeat that recommendation ...
... wages in the retail industry which can be gathered . We think it is a very helpful and significant contribution to ... hour law . Last year I requested the Congress to broaden the coverage of minimum wage . I repeat that recommendation ...
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... wages in the retail industry which can be gathered . We think it is a very helpful and significant contribution to ... hour law . Last year I requested the Congress to broaden the coverage of minimum wage . I repeat that recommendation ...
... wages in the retail industry which can be gathered . We think it is a very helpful and significant contribution to ... hour law . Last year I requested the Congress to broaden the coverage of minimum wage . I repeat that recommendation ...
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... hour or such higher rate as may be prescribed in the applicable order of the Secretary under section 8 , or " ( 2 ) ... wage rate . Such minimum piece rates or employer piece rates shall be commensurate with , and shall be paid in lieu of , the ...
... hour or such higher rate as may be prescribed in the applicable order of the Secretary under section 8 , or " ( 2 ) ... wage rate . Such minimum piece rates or employer piece rates shall be commensurate with , and shall be paid in lieu of , the ...
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... wage . It is probably not generally recalled today that in 1932 the average ... hour , 15 percent less than 90 cents , 25 percent less than $ 1 and fully 50 ... hour and 40 percent of service workers were in the same wage bracket . In ...
... wage . It is probably not generally recalled today that in 1932 the average ... hour , 15 percent less than 90 cents , 25 percent less than $ 1 and fully 50 ... hour and 40 percent of service workers were in the same wage bracket . In ...
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... wage rates of less than 75 cents an hour . None of the 1,415,000 work- ers covered by minimum - wage rates of 60 cents or more an hour are located in the South . Yet it is precisely in the Southern States that retail wages are ...
... wage rates of less than 75 cents an hour . None of the 1,415,000 work- ers covered by minimum - wage rates of 60 cents or more an hour are located in the South . Yet it is precisely in the Southern States that retail wages are ...
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Page xiii - Produced means produced, manufactured, mined, handled, or in any other manner worked on in any State; and for the purposes of this Act an employee shall be deemed to have been engaged in the production of goods if such employee was employed in producing, manufacturing, mining, handling, transporting, or in any other manner working on such goods, or in any process or occupation necessary to the production thereof, in any State.
Page xiii - ... (1) causes commerce and the channels and instrumentalities of commerce to be used to spread and perpetuate such labor conditions among the workers of the several States; (2) burdens commerce and the free flow of goods in commerce; (3) constitutes an unfair method of competition in commerce; (4) leads to labor disputes burdening and obstructing commerce and the free flow of goods in commerce; and (5) interferes with the orderly and fair marketing of goods in commerce.
Page 527 - FINDING AND DECLARATION OF POLICY SEC. 2. (a) The Congress hereby finds that the existence, in industries engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, of labor conditions detrimental to the maintenance of the minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and general wellbeing of workers...
Page 14 - The power of Congress over interstate commerce is not confined to the regulation of commerce among the states. It extends to those activities intrastate which so affect interstate commerce or the exercise of the power of Congress over it as to make regulation of them appropriate means to the attainment of a legitimate end, the exercise of the granted power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce.
Page xiii - ... of the Agricultural Marketing Act, as amended), the raising of livestock, bees, fur-bearing animals, or poultry, and any practices (including any forestry or lumbering operations) performed by a farmer or on a farm as an incident to or in conjunction with such farming operations, including preparation for market, delivery to storage or to market or to carriers for transportation to market.
Page xiii - ... delivering letters and messages, under special certificates issued pursuant to regulations of the Administrator, at such wages lower than the minimum wage applicable under section 6 and subject to such limitations as to time, number, proportion, and length of service as the Administrator shall prescribe...
Page 22 - ... or in any other manner worked on in any State; and for the purposes of this Act an employee shall be deemed to have been engaged in the production of goods if such employee was employed in producing, manufacturing, mining, handling, transporting, or in any other manner working on such goods, or in any closely related process or occupation directly essential to the production thereof, in any State.
Page xiii - The amendments made by this Act shall take effect upon the expiration of one...
Page xiii - Congress hereby finds that the existence, in industries engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce or in activities affecting commerce, of labor conditions detrimental to the maintenance of the minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers...
Page xiii - In connection with the production or harvesting of any commodity defined as an agricultural commodity in section 15 (g) of the Agricultural Marketing Act, as amended, or in connection with the ginning of cotton, or in connection with the operation or maintenance...