Fair Labor Standards Act: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session, on Bills Relating to Extension of Coverage of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Hearings Held at Washington, D.C. July 19 and 20, 1956Considers (84) H.R. 6647, (84) H.R. 6648, (84) H.R. 6653, (84) H.R. 6656, (84) H.R. 6660, (84) H.R. 6663, (84) H.R. 6664, (84) H.R. 6683, (84) H.R. 6690, (84) H.R. 6697. |
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... Profits in retail trade .. 64 , 91 Exempt employees ( table 2 ) – Noncovered employees ( table 1 ) . Table 3 - Net profits as a percentage of net current assets of six major retail enterprises , 1954-- Department stores and mail - order ...
... Profits in retail trade .. 64 , 91 Exempt employees ( table 2 ) – Noncovered employees ( table 1 ) . Table 3 - Net profits as a percentage of net current assets of six major retail enterprises , 1954-- Department stores and mail - order ...
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... profit ratio up at 11 variety - store chains ... 21 Section 4. Profit rates and wages . Section 3. Top department - store chains show sales and profit- Gains for 1955 ( table 7 ) - Table 6. - Comparisons of sales , profits , and ratio ...
... profit ratio up at 11 variety - store chains ... 21 Section 4. Profit rates and wages . Section 3. Top department - store chains show sales and profit- Gains for 1955 ( table 7 ) - Table 6. - Comparisons of sales , profits , and ratio ...
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... profit . The employers who plead poverty and justify their opposition to extension on the basis of the so - called laws of supply and demand are doing the Nation a disservice in the current worldwide contest of ideas . The most ...
... profit . The employers who plead poverty and justify their opposition to extension on the basis of the so - called laws of supply and demand are doing the Nation a disservice in the current worldwide contest of ideas . The most ...
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... profit squeezes , harassment and threatened disaster . Such talk beshrouds the points at issue . By definition these ... profit . " We are entirely in agreement with them and we would like to see more businesses making higher profits . 8 ...
... profit squeezes , harassment and threatened disaster . Such talk beshrouds the points at issue . By definition these ... profit . " We are entirely in agreement with them and we would like to see more businesses making higher profits . 8 ...
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... profits es are the other interrelated costs of doing business . We favor tax relief rather than wage relief for the growing concern which is making a profit . In the matter of wage costs there are human intangibles which cannot be ...
... profits es are the other interrelated costs of doing business . We favor tax relief rather than wage relief for the growing concern which is making a profit . In the matter of wage costs there are human intangibles which cannot be ...
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$1 an hour 50 cents 75 cents 84th Congress AFL-CIO Allied Stores amended annual earnings annual sales annual volume apply average hourly earnings basic coverage bill cents an hour chain CHAIRMAN committee Congress covered Department Store Union drugstore earnings in retail employment engaged in commerce exchanges exemption extension of coverage Fair Labor Standards farm Federal firms FLSA protection food stores grocery increase interstate commerce J. C. Penney Labor Standards Act large retail laundry legislation Lerner Stores less LIPPMAN manufacturing McCONNELL ment million minimum wage National NLRB operating organization overtime payroll percent plants production profit provisions reported retail and service retail employer retail enterprises retail establishments retail industry retail stores retail trade retail workers Safeway section 13 service establishments small retail Standard & Poor's statement subcommittee subscribers SUFFRIDGE Super supermarkets taxes United variety stores volume of sales Wage and Hour WIER Women's Wear Daily
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Page 102 - ... 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 4 - What can be closer to the public interest than the health of women and their protection from unscrupulous and overreaching employers? And if the protection of women is a legitimate end of the exercise of state power, how can it be said that the requirement of the payment of a minimum wage fairly fixed in order to meet the very necessities of existence is not an admissible means to that end?
Page 60 - ... (4) any employee employed by an establishment which qualifies as an exempt retail establishment under clause (2) of this subsection and is recognized as a retail establishment in the particular industry notwithstanding that such establishment makes or processes at the retail establishment the goods that it sells: Provided, That more than 85 per centum of such establishment's annual dollar volume of sales of goods so made or processed is made within the State in which the establishment is located...
Page 4 - FINDING AND DECLARATION OF POLICY SEC. 2. (a) The Congress hereby finds that the existence, in industries engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, of labor conditions detrimental to the maintenance of the minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers...
Page 61 - ... (b) It is hereby declared to be the policy of this Act, through the exercise by Congress of its power to regulate commerce among the several States and with foreign nations, to correct and as rapidly as practicable to eliminate the conditions above referred to in such industries without substantially curtailing employment or earning power.
Page 88 - In the application of the minimum wage and overtime compensation provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, of the Walsh-Healey Act, or of the...
Page 3 - Nevertheless, there is a dictate of nature more imperious and more ancient than any bargain between man and man, that the remuneration must be enough to support the wage earner in reasonable and frugal comfort.
Page 87 - Administrator) ; or (2) any employee engaged in any retail or service establishment the greater part of whose selling or servicing is in intrastate commerce...
Page 75 - The provisions of sections 6 and 7 shall not apply with respect to ( 1 ) any employee employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, professional, or local retailing capacity, or in the capacity of outside salesman (as such terms are defined and delimited by regulations of the Administrator); or (2) any employee engaged in any retail or service establishment...
Page 60 - ... (13) any employee or proprietor in a retail or service establishment which qualifies as an exempt retail or service establishment under clause (2) of this subsection with respect to whom the provisions of sections 6 and 7 would not otherwise apply, engaged in handling telegraphic messages for the public under an agency or contract arrangement with a telegraph company where the telegraph message revenue of such agency does not exceed $500 a month...