Fair Labor Standards Act of 1937: Joint Hearings Before the Committee on Education and Labor, United States Senate, and the Committee on Labor, House of Representatives, Seventy-fifth Congress, First Session, on S. 2475 and H.R. 7200, Bills to Provide for the Establishment of Fair Labor Standards in Employments in and Affecting Interstate Commerce and for Other Purposes. June 2 to June 5 1937, Volumes 1-3 |
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... operation of the bill . The next definition which I think might be unusual is at page 5 . Representative RAMSPECK . Is it all right to question Mr. Jackson as we go along ? The CHAIRMAN . Mr. Jackson suggested that he be questioned on ...
... operation of the bill . The next definition which I think might be unusual is at page 5 . Representative RAMSPECK . Is it all right to question Mr. Jackson as we go along ? The CHAIRMAN . Mr. Jackson suggested that he be questioned on ...
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... operation . It The administration of part IV may , it is true , present practical difficulties . may not always be possible for the Board to make the administrative findings necessary , even though the industrial facts urgently require ...
... operation . It The administration of part IV may , it is true , present practical difficulties . may not always be possible for the Board to make the administrative findings necessary , even though the industrial facts urgently require ...
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... operation of this provision will probably be such that they will be willing to stipulate that one case shall settle them all , because recovery of attorneys ' fees may be allowed by the court in each of the cases , and the employer may ...
... operation of this provision will probably be such that they will be willing to stipulate that one case shall settle them all , because recovery of attorneys ' fees may be allowed by the court in each of the cases , and the employer may ...
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... operation of machines , where that is wise . The 6 - hour day is so short that in offering men and women an opportunity to choose a shift it is interesting to see what they do . Many women like to work afternoons because with their ...
... operation of machines , where that is wise . The 6 - hour day is so short that in offering men and women an opportunity to choose a shift it is interesting to see what they do . Many women like to work afternoons because with their ...
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... operation itself . I think many operations are unhealthy for the operator when they are carried to the extent of an 8 - hour day , but it depends on the operation . Representative CONNERY . What about the policing of this act ? Would ...
... operation itself . I think many operations are unhealthy for the operator when they are carried to the extent of an 8 - hour day , but it depends on the operation . Representative CONNERY . What about the policing of this act ? Would ...
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Page 640 - ... a statute which either forbids or requires the doing of an act in terms so vague that men of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application...
Page 307 - labor dispute' includes any controversy concerning terms, tenure or conditions of employment, or concerning the association or representation of persons in negotiating, fixing, maintaining, changing, or seeking to arrange terms or conditions of employment, regardless of whether the disputants stand in the proximate relation of employer and employee.
Page 48 - 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 closely related process or occupation directly essential to the production thereof, in any State.
Page 14 - The Constitution has never been regarded as denying to the Congress the necessary resources of flexibility and practicality, which will enable it to perform its function in laying down policies and establishing standards, while leaving to selected instrumentalities the making of subordinate rules...
Page 13 - Congress legislated on the subject as far as was reasonably practicable, and from the necessities of the case was compelled to leave to executive officials the duty of bringing about the result pointed out by the statute.
Page 390 - Proceedings of the thirteenth annual convention of the Association of Governmental Labor Officials of the United States and Canada, held at Columbus, Ohio, June 7.10, 1926.
Page 294 - ... (2) may be guided by like considerations as would guide a court in a suit for the reasonable value of services rendered where services are rendered at the request of an employer without contract as to the amount of the wage to be paid, and (3) may consider the wages paid in the state for work of like or comparable character by employers who voluntarily maintain minimum fair wage standards.
Page 6 - I do not, however, object to the revision of it, and am quite willing that it be regarded hereafter as the law of this court, that its opinion upon the construction of the Constitution is always open to discussion when it is supposed to have been founded in error, and that its judicial authority should hereafter depend altogether on the force of the reasoning by which it is supported.
Page 700 - ... to influence or coerce employees in an effort to induce them to join or remain or not to join or remain members of any labor organization...
Page 7 - The act does not meddle with anything belonging to the States. They may regulate their internal affairs and their domestic commerce as they like. But when they seek to send their products across the State line they are no longer within their rights. If there were no Constitution and no Congress, their power to cross the line would depend upon their neighbors. Under the Constitution such commerce belongs not to the States but to Congress to regulate. It may carry out its views of public policy whatever...