Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absolute safety from this stingaree, every buyer of goods for resale would have to maintain his own national inspection staff. Of course the Wage and Hour Administration intends to jab Section 15 only into suspected conspirators. Nevertheless, Section 15 may well become as famous...
...Wage & Hour Administrator Elmer Frank Andrews, to whom businessmen pray for guidance every day, last week submitted to Franklin Roosevelt the first general report on the actual effects of the Act. Said Elmer Andrews: "Many of the earlier news reports considerably exaggerated the difficulties experienced because of the new Act. The number affected by plant layoffs is apparently not more than 30,000 to 50,000, or less than one half of 1% of the workers coming under the Act. . . . It is noteworthy that the layoffs have been concentrated in a very few industries in the South. . . . About 90% . . . were...
This beautiful bayonet may help enforcement, but unfortunately it is not clear in many cases what constitutes a violation of the Act. The law says: "No provision of this Act shall justify any employer in reducing a wage paid by him which is in excess of the applicable minimum wage under this Act. . . ." If an employer who previously paid $20 or 40? an hour for a 50-hour week cuts his nominal hourly rate to 38?, and pays $20.14 for 50 hours (including the six overtime hours at 1½ times 38?) he may violate...
Between 1939 and 1945, when over-all standards become fixed at 40? an hour, 40 hours per week, industry committees appointed by the administrators may suggest and he may fix wage rates at anywhere above 25? up to 40¢. In so doing he must consider as "relevant factors" differences in living, production and transportation costs-the elements of the South's cherished wage differentials. Having done so, he may not establish any differential "solely on a regional basis." He will be damned if he does, damned if he doesn't by high-wage Northern or low-wage...
Major Arthur L. Fletcher, a North Carolina National Guardsman, has the job of Wage & Hour enforcement. He looks like Author Clarence Budington Kelland's country-store keeper, Scattergood Baines, has a round, pink face, a vast capacity for calm, an equally vast distaste for employers who pay starvation wages. Of the hundreds of letters received by him up to last week, 104 were specific enough to be classed as complaints. Of these, 14 have been referred to the 24 field inspectors (one per State) already assigned to the field. As a Southerner who administered North Carolina's industrial...