Minimum Wage-hour Legislation: Hearings Before the General Subcommittee on Labor of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Eighty-eighth Congress, Second Session, on H. R. 9824, a Bill to Amend the Fair Labor Standards Act to Extend Its Protection to Additional Employees, and for Other Purposes . . |
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Page 146 - 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 well-being of workers...
Page 183 - The provisions of section 7 shall not apply with respect to (1) any employee with respect to whom the Interstate Commerce Commission has power to establish qualifications and maximum hours of service pursuant to the provisions of section 204 of the Motor Carrier Act. 1935 ; or (2) any employee of an employer subject to the provisions of Part I of the Interstate Commerce Act.
Page 188 - Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Labor of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare on S.
Page 169 - It shall be the duty of the Commission — "(1) To regulate common carriers by motor vehicle as provided in this part, and to that end the Commission may establish reasonable requirements with respect to...
Page 288 - Government must pay for overtime work at the rate of time and one-half for work in excess of 8 hours per day or 40 hours per week...
Page 391 - AMCBW is a labor union with 375,000 members organized in about 500 local unions throughout the United States and Canada. The AMCBW and its locals have contracts with thousands of employers in the meat, retail, poultry, egg, canning, leather, fish processing and fur industries.
Page vi - It will not be a short or easy struggle, no single weapon or strategy will suffice, but we shall not rest until that war is won.
Page v - Secretary — (A) to be characterized by marked annually recurring seasonal peaks of operation at the places of first marketing or first processing of agricultural or horticultural commodities from farms if such industry is engaged in the handling, packing, preparing, storing, first processing, or canning of any perishable agricultural or horticultural commodities in their raw or natural state...
Page 73 - ... any individual employed within the area of production (as defined by the Administrator), engaged in handling, packing, storing, ginning, compressing, pasteurizing, drying, preparing in their raw or natural state, or canning of agricultural or horticultural commodities for market, or in making cheese or butter or other dairy products...
Page 174 - It is hereby declared to be the national transportation policy of the Congress to provide for fair and impartial regulation of all modes of transportation,* * *, so administered as to recognize and preserve the inherent advantages of each...