| Labor laws and legislation - 1967 - 788 pages
...endorsed objectives, but to be employed equally to sub-standard wages Is no social achievement at all. The "minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers" must be attained. . . . Poverty Is not restricted to the unemployed alone. Many who are... | |
| United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics - 1949 - 786 pages
...Labor Standards Act was enacted, although 40 cents then was recognized as inadequate to meet * * * the minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers." It therefore urged a minimum wage of $1 an hour for all workers, whether in continental... | |
| United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics - Labor - 1949 - 784 pages
...Labor Standards Act was enacted, although 40 cents then was recognized as inadequate to meet * * * the minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers." It therefore urged a minimum wage of $1 an hour for all workers, whether in continental... | |
| United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board - Arbitration, Industrial - 716 pages
...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 the health, efficiency, and general well being of workers. . . . "It is hereby declared to be the policy... | |
| United States. Department of Labor. Wage and Hour Division - Labor laws and legislation - 1938 - 324 pages
...declaration of policy in section 2, Congress recited that it sought to remedy certain evils, namely, "labor conditions detrimental to the maintenance of...necessary for health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers," which Congress found "(1) causes commerce and the channels and instrumentalities of commerce... | |
| United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics - Labor - 1939 - 1542 pages
...that "the existence, in industries engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, of labor conditions detrimental to the maintenance of...necessary for health, efficiency and general well-being of workers" burdened commerce, and constituted an unfair method of competition, and that it led to... | |
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