Migratory Labor: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Mirgratory Labor of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, Eighty-sixth Congress, First [-second] Session, on S. 1085 [and Other] Bills ...pt. 1: Considers. S. 1085, to establish minimum wages for migrant workers. S. 1778 and S. 2498, to register and regulate migrant labor contractors engaged in interstate commerce. S. 2141, to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to repeal child labor law exemptions for agricultural labor. Sept. 28 hearing was held in Lansing, Mich.; Sept. 30 hearing was held in Madison, Wis.; Oct. 1 hearing was held in St. Paul, Minn.; Nov. 30 hearing was held in Trenton, N.J.; Dec. 7 hearing was held in NYC; and Dec. 8 hearing was held in Philadelphia, Pa.; pt. 2: May 16 hearing was held in Homestead, Fla.; May 18 hearing was held in Clewiston, Fla.; July 8 hearing was held in Fresno, Calif.; and July 11 hearing was held in Sacramento, Calif. |
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Page 770 - Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to authorize any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution or school system...
Page 1336 - Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
Page 776 - ... interest-bearing obligations of the United States then forming a part of the public debt...
Page 882 - local educational agency" means a board of education or other legally constituted local school authority having administrative control and direction of free public education in a county, township, independent, or other school district located within a State.
Page 1444 - ... are able, willing, and qualified are not available at the time and place needed to perform the work for which such workers are to be employed, (2) the employment of such workers will not adversely affect the wages and working conditions of domestic agricultural workers similarly employed, and (3) reasonable efforts have . been made to attract domestic workers for such employment at wages and standard hours of work comparable to those offered to foreign workers.
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Page 773 - EMPLOYMENT ACT OF 1946, AS AMENDED, WITH RELATED LAWS (60 Stat. 23) [PUBLIC LAW 304— 79TH CONGRESS] AN ACT To declare a national policy on employment, production, and purchasing power, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SHORT TITLE SECTION 1 . This Act may be cited as the "Employment Act of 1946".
Page 764 - Labor may provide reasonable limitations and may make rules and regulations allowing reasonable variations, tolerances, and exemptions to and from any or all provisions of this Act...
Page 1464 - In addition to the foregoing, it shall be unlawful for any minor under eighteen years of age to be employed or permitted to work...
Page 765 - Upon notice and hearing in accordance with regulations prescribed by him, the Secretary may refuse to issue, and may suspend, revoke, or refuse to renew a certificate of registration to any farm labor contractor if he finds that such contractor...