Fair Labor Standards Act, Hearings Before..., 84-2, July 19 and 20, 19561956 - 116 pages |
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$1 an hour 50 cents 75 cents 84th Congress AFL-CIO Allied Stores AMALGAMATED MEAT CUTTERS amendments annual earnings annual sales annual volume appendix average hourly earnings basic coverage bill cents an hour chain CHAIRMAN committee Congress covered Department Store Union drugstore engaged in commerce exemption extend extension of coverage Fair Labor Standards farm Federal firms food stores grocery sales increase interstate commerce J. C. Penney Labor Standards Act large retail laundry legislation Lerner Stores less LIPPMAN manufacturing McCONNELL ment million minimum wage multistate National NLRB organization payroll 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 TABLE taxes telephone companies U. S. Department United variety stores Wage and Hour WIER Women and minors Women's Wear Daily
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Page 91 - ... 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 5 - 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 5 - 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 91 - industry affecting commerce" means any industry or activity in commerce or in which a labor dispute would burden or obstruct commerce or tend to burden or obstruct commerce or the free flow of commerce. (2) The term "strike...
Page 59 - retail or service establishment" shall mean an establishment 75 per centum of whose annual dollar volume of sales of goods or services (or of both) is not for resale and is recognized as retail sales or services in the particular industry...
Page 84 - 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 59 - ... (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 59 - ... (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...
Page 63 - ... labor conditions detrimental to the maintenance of the minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers (1) causes commerce and the channels and instrumentalities of commerce to be used to spread and perpetuate such labor conditions among the workers of the several States...
Page 63 - the orderly and fair marketing of goods in commerce"? I think not. No, the same factors that support the application of minimum wage and overtime standards in mining, manufacturing, transportation, and communications industries equally support the application of these standards in the distribution end of the stream of commerce. APPENDIX A. Comparative wage data in retail, wholesale, and manufacturing Whereas retail and service employees were once one of the highest paid groups of workers, today their...