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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... reference to public welfare without any standard to guide determinations . The purpose of the act , the re- quirements it imposes , and the context of the provision in question show the contrary . The provisions now before us were among ...
... reference to public welfare without any standard to guide determinations . The purpose of the act , the re- quirements it imposes , and the context of the provision in question show the contrary . The provisions now before us were among ...
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... reference to determining the circumstances under which minimum wages should be put into effect is the same as that upheld by the Supreme Court in the Minimum Wage case from the State of Washington ? Mr. JACKSON . Very much so ...
... reference to determining the circumstances under which minimum wages should be put into effect is the same as that upheld by the Supreme Court in the Minimum Wage case from the State of Washington ? Mr. JACKSON . Very much so ...
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... reference to classifications , which authorizes the Board to classify employers , employees , and employment within an occupation to which such order relates , according to localities , the population FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1937 33.
... reference to classifications , which authorizes the Board to classify employers , employees , and employment within an occupation to which such order relates , according to localities , the population FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1937 33.
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... reference to the particular employment , not a general subdivision of the country . Now , it should be borne in mind that so far as the oppressive wage is concerned , that is , the wage which is fixed by Congress , there is only one ...
... reference to the particular employment , not a general subdivision of the country . Now , it should be borne in mind that so far as the oppressive wage is concerned , that is , the wage which is fixed by Congress , there is only one ...
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... reference to self - organization , or the political or economic views or activities of such employee . Oppressively the practices generally are those practices which are designed to destroy the effectiveness of collective bargaining ...
... reference to self - organization , or the political or economic views or activities of such employee . Oppressively the practices generally are those practices which are designed to destroy the effectiveness of collective bargaining ...
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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...