Amending the Service Contract Act of 1965: Hearing, Ninety-second Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 11884 ... |
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... questions . ATTACHMENT 3 CONTRACTS COVERED RELATED TO NUMBER OF WAGE DETERMINATIONS FISCAL YEARS SERVICE CONTRACT ACT PROPOSED CONTRACTS COVER- 1970 1971 ED BY WAGE DETERMINATIONS 8,017 7,409 NO . OF WAGE DETERMINA- 1.637 1,805 TIONS ...
... questions . ATTACHMENT 3 CONTRACTS COVERED RELATED TO NUMBER OF WAGE DETERMINATIONS FISCAL YEARS SERVICE CONTRACT ACT PROPOSED CONTRACTS COVER- 1970 1971 ED BY WAGE DETERMINATIONS 8,017 7,409 NO . OF WAGE DETERMINA- 1.637 1,805 TIONS ...
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... question might be more appropriate for the Department of Labor representatives , but you have suggested in your statement the criteria they use in determining whether or not they are going to make a determination . They base it upon the ...
... question might be more appropriate for the Department of Labor representatives , but you have suggested in your statement the criteria they use in determining whether or not they are going to make a determination . They base it upon the ...
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... question of how appropriate mail surveys might be for use under the McNamara - O'Hara Service Contract Act ? Mr. AHART . We have not looked into that question in any particular depth . We have discussed the problem with Department ...
... question of how appropriate mail surveys might be for use under the McNamara - O'Hara Service Contract Act ? Mr. AHART . We have not looked into that question in any particular depth . We have discussed the problem with Department ...
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... questions I have . Mr. THOMPSON . I have just one comment . I can understand the dif- ficulty that these gentlemen ... question then is : What is your estimate of the total cost involved , namely , the five additional employees , the ...
... questions I have . Mr. THOMPSON . I have just one comment . I can understand the dif- ficulty that these gentlemen ... question then is : What is your estimate of the total cost involved , namely , the five additional employees , the ...
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... question or touched upon it . I wouldn't like to assume that we can only do 50 percent of the job . Is there any way you can do 100 percent , and what would the cost be then , or 80 to 100 percent ? Mr. AHART . The estimate I included ...
... question or touched upon it . I wouldn't like to assume that we can only do 50 percent of the job . Is there any way you can do 100 percent , and what would the cost be then , or 80 to 100 percent ? Mr. AHART . The estimate I included ...
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56 percent 75 percent affected by wage affected employees AHART awarded bill BLS surveys CARLSON Chairman collective bargaining agreement CONGRESS THE LIBRARY contracting agency contracts covered Coordinated Federal Wage coverage covered by wage current wage determination Davis-Bacon Act Department of Labor Department officials Eastern Test Range equivalent difficulty estimate expected to involve Federal Wage System fiscal year 1971 fringe benefit determinations GRUNEWALD hearing janitors LANDIS LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LIBRARY RF locality mail survey ment metropolitan statistical area minations Noticed contracts notices of intention notices received number of contracts number of notices number of service NYSTROM O'HARA performed ployees prevailing rate proposed amendments require Secretary section 2(a Service Contract Act service employees sources of data specific statement subcommittee THOMPSON tions United States Code wage board determinations wage board rates wage board surveys wage data wage deter wage rates wage surveys wages and fringe WARREN BROWN
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Page 26 - Mr. Chairman, I would like to thank you again for this opportunity to appear before your Committee...
Page 16 - Law 763 provides that the compensation of such employees shall be fixed and adjusted from time to time as nearly as is consistent with the public interest in accordance with prevailing rates. A general survey of Government and industrial employees...
Page 1 - ... (b) (1) No contractor who enters into any contract with the Federal Government the principal purpose of which is to furnish services through the use of service employees as defined herein and no subcontractor thereunder shall pay any of his employees engaged in performing work on such contracts less...
Page 2 - Secretary that such wages and fringe benefits are substantially at variance with those which prevail for services of a character similar in the locality. (d) Subject to limitations in annual appropriation Acts but notwithstanding any other provision of law, contracts to which this Act applies may, if authorized by the Secretary, be for any term of years not exceeding five, if each such contract provides for the periodic adjustment of wages and fringe benefits pursuant to future determinations, issued...
Page 36 - However, in general, there are a couple of questions I would like to ask. You...
Page 3 - Columbia in excess of $2,500 — • the principal purpose of which is to furnish services to the United States through the use of service employees...
Page 24 - Such a duty does not, however, ensue as a matter of law from the mere fact that an employer is doing the same work in the same place with the same employees as his predecessor, as the Board had recognized until its decision in the instant case.
Page 3 - A provision specifying the minimum monetary wages to be paid the various classes of service employees in the performance of the contract or any subcontract thereunder, as determined by the Secretary, or his authorized representative, in accordance with prevailing rates for such employees in the locality, which in no case shall be lower than the minimum specified in subsection (b).
Page 24 - One of these fundamental policies is freedom of contract. While the parties' freedom of contract is not absolute under the Act, allowing the Board to compel agreement when the parties themselves are unable to agree would violate the fundamental premise on which the Act is based — private bargaining under governmental supervision of the procedure alone, without any official compulsion over the actual terms of the contract.
Page 2 - Act (other than section 10), but only in special circumstances where he determines that such limitation, variation, tolerance, or exemption is necessary and proper in the public interest or to avoid the serious impairment of government business, and is in accord with the remedial purpose of this Act to protect prevailing labor standards.