Problems of Service Contract Act and Protection of Florida Cape Area Workers: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Federal Spending Practices, Efficiency, and Open Government of the Committee on Government Operations, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, Second Session, May 17, 1976, Merritt Island, Florida

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Page 91 - A provision that no part of the services covered by this Act will be performed in buildings or surroundings or under working conditions, provided by or under the control or supervision of the contractor or any subcontractor, which are unsanitary or hazardous or dangerous to the health or safety of service employees engaged to furnish the services...
Page 95 - Secretary, on the record, after notice and opportunity for a hearing may provide such reasonable limitations and may make such rules and regulations allowing reasonable variations, tolerances, and exemptions to and from any or all provisions of this Act as he may find necessary and proper to avoid serious impairment of the national defense.
Page 71 - service employee" means guards, watchmen, and any person engaged in a recognized trade or craft, or other skilled mechanical craft, or in unskilled, semiskilled, or skilled manual labor occupations; and any other employee including a foreman or supervisor in a position having trade, craft, or laboring experience as the paramount requirement; and shall include all such persons regardless of any contractual relationship that may be alleged to exist between a contractor or subcontractor...
Page 92 - Stat. 2036); (3) any contract for the carriage of freight or personnel by vessel, airplane, bus, truck, express, railway line or oil or gas pipeline where published tariff rates are in effect...
Page 94 - ... medical or hospital care, pensions on retirement or death of employees, compensation for injuries or illness resulting from occupational activity or insurance to provide any of the foregoing, or unemployment benefits or life insurance, disability and sickness insurance, or accident insurance...
Page 96 - That the advertised specifications for every contract in excess of $2,000, to which the United States or the District of Columbia is a party, for construction, alteration, and/or repair, including painting and decorating, of public buildings or public works...
Page 96 - No contract shall be awarded to the persons or firms appearing on this list or to any firm, corporation, partnership, or association in which such persons or firms...
Page 96 - Any such sum not paid to an employee because of inability to do so within a period of three years shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts.
Page 91 - Federal service contract shall pay any of his employees engaged in such work less than the minimum wage specified in section 6 (a) (1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended (29 USC 201,etseq.).
Page 95 - The requirement set forth in §1-12.901 (a) applies to any contract with the Federal Government, the principal purpose of which is to furnish services through the use of service employees (as defined in § 1-12.902-2) . (b) The requirement set forth in § 112.901 (b) applies to every contract (and any bid specification therefor...

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