Annual Report of the Secretary of LaborU.S. Government Printing Office, 1959 - Employees |
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Page 1 - Labor shall be to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment.
Page 238 - ... which provide, among other things, that during the first year of operation of the Act a minimum wage of 25 cents per hour shall be paid to employees "engaged in [interstate] commerce or the production of goods for [interstate] commerce...
Page 19 - Conference Committees and certain of their employees represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, Order of Railway Conductors and BrakeNOTE.— Staff counsel assigned to this hearing : Stanton P.
Page 138 - Interests and activities of the Office of Defense Mobilization and the Federal Civil Defense Administration...
Page 240 - The provisions of section 7 shall not apply with respect to (1) any employee with respect to whom the Interstate Commerce Commission has power to establish qualifications and maximum hours of service pursuant to the provisions of section 204 of the Motor Carrier Act, 1935...
Page 202 - These range from career education and curriculum materials to the sponsorship of "community resource workshops" (by the American Iron and Steel Institute) and the promotion of industry-education councils by the National Association of Manufacturers and the US Chamber of Commerce.
Page 25 - ... the employment of such workers will not adversely affect the wages and working conditions of domestic agricultural workers similarly employed...
Page 265 - First Jobs of College Women: Report on Women Graduates, Class of 1957.
Page 7 - The Committee shall study, and shall advise with and make recommendations to the President with respect to, policies that may be followed by labor, management, or the public which will promote free and responsible collective bargaining, industrial peace, sound wage and price policies, higher standards of living, and increased productivity.
Page 12 - ... than the following, whichever is highest: (a) The minimum entrance rate for inexperienced workers in the same occupation or if the occupation is new to the establishment, the prevailing entrance rate for the occupation among other establishments in the community or area; (b) The minimum rate required under the Fair Labor Standards Act or the Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act, to the extent that such acts are applicable to the trainee; and (c) Any minimum rate applicable to the trainee and required...