Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Education and LaborU.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 |
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Stran 21 - which had a staff of investigators. With the enactment of the 1966 amendments. which became effective Feb. 1, 1967, Congress brought the act closer than at any time in its history to meeting its original objective—the elimination of "labor conditions detrimental to the maintenance of the minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency and general well-being of worker*.
Stran 55 - including employees handling, selling, or otherwise working on goods that have been moved in or produced for such commerce." Congress applied this new coverage standard to comparatively large enterprises doing business of $1 million or more a year. An annual sales volume test for coverage was also applied to each single establishment of covered enterprises in the retail and
Stran 57 - including employees handling, selling, or otherwise working on goods that have been moved in or produced for such commerce." Congress applied this new coverage standard to comparatively large enterprises doing business of $1 million or more a year. An annual sales volume test for coverage was also applied to each single establishment of covered enterprises in the retail and
Stran 20 - labor conditions detrimental to the maintenance of the minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers,
Stran 52 - O - 77 - 4 forth standards to promote "the maintenance of the minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers.
Stran 19 - peculiarly subject to the overreaching of the harsh and greedy employer ... It is not the function of this court to hold congressional acts invalid simply because they are passed to carry out economic views which the court believes to be unwise or unsound." It was not until the depression of the 1930s that the minimum wage fight received new impetus. To
Stran 19 - legislation. President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved fast. On May 24, 1937, less than two months after the Supreme Court decision, he sent a message to Congress, requesting legislation to establish federal fair labor standards. "All but the hopelessly reactionary will agree that to conserve our primary resources of manpower, government must have some control over
Stran 19 - Legislatures in limiting freedom of contract between employee and employer by a minimum wage proceed on the assumption that employees, in the class receiving the least pay, are not upon a full level of equality with their employer and in their necessitous circumstances are prone to accept pretty much anything that is offered. They
Stran 542 - policy of this Act, through the exercise of 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
Stran 32 - at the mercy of a society which imposes pressures and priorities that allow neither time nor place for meaningful activities and relations between children and adults, which downgrade the role of parents and the functions of parenthood, and which prevent the parent from doing things he wants to do a* a guide, friend, and companion