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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... workers who man the large " factories in the field , " the logger in the South , the switchboard operator who runs a rural telephone exchange . These are the forgotten workers of America , whose personal liveli- hood is hitched to a ...
... workers who man the large " factories in the field , " the logger in the South , the switchboard operator who runs a rural telephone exchange . These are the forgotten workers of America , whose personal liveli- hood is hitched to a ...
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... workers . And of the nearly 7 million workers in retail trade , only 230,000 now employed in mail- order houses and in the central offices and warehouses of chainstores are covered under the Fair Labor Standards Act . In addition , most ...
... workers . And of the nearly 7 million workers in retail trade , only 230,000 now employed in mail- order houses and in the central offices and warehouses of chainstores are covered under the Fair Labor Standards Act . In addition , most ...
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... workers re- ceive less than 75 cents an hour and two - thirds are paid less than a dollar an hour . Senator DOUGLAS . I wondered if Mr. Tyson would be willing to sub- mit for the record a clear and concise definition of the term " area ...
... workers re- ceive less than 75 cents an hour and two - thirds are paid less than a dollar an hour . Senator DOUGLAS . I wondered if Mr. Tyson would be willing to sub- mit for the record a clear and concise definition of the term " area ...
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... Workers of America . Now , before I go on to my conclusions , Mr. Tyson wants to add a word . Mr. TYSON . Mr. Chairman , I merely wish to interpose the comment that with respect to agricultural workers , the Congress has passed ...
... Workers of America . Now , before I go on to my conclusions , Mr. Tyson wants to add a word . Mr. TYSON . Mr. Chairman , I merely wish to interpose the comment that with respect to agricultural workers , the Congress has passed ...
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... workers . We certainly ask the Congress to give careful and sympathetic consideration to the pro- posals we have made for the extension of coverage of the Fair Labor Standards Act . We urge that the changes we have recommended be ...
... workers . We certainly ask the Congress to give careful and sympathetic consideration to the pro- posals we have made for the extension of coverage of the Fair Labor Standards Act . We urge that the changes we have recommended be ...
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Popular passages
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...