Minimum Wage: Hearings Before the Committee on Rules, House of Representatives, Eighty-ninth Congress, Second Session, Part 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1966 |
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Page 85 - What is going to happen, if this legislation passes, as it is currently written, and we bring agricultural workers under ? These young people are going to be covered at 85 percent of the minimum wage, 85 percent of $1 an hour and then $1.15 and then $1.30, and so forth. I have talked to the officials of this seed company. Do you know what they are going to do ? They are going to go to what they call sterile corn that does not have tassles and this sterile corn will not require the hiring of any young...
Page 87 - Chairman, if you have any questions I will be glad to try to answer them, or Mr.
Page 79 - As average wages rise, the minimum wage level should be increased periodically. The question is not whether the minimum wage should be increased but when and by how much.
Page 79 - ... to refer back to President Johnson's original labor message to the Congress in which he recommends legislation in this area, and I am only going to quote a brief part of it : I am, accordingly, urging early action to (1) amend the Fair Labor Standards Act to extend its protection to an additional 4% million workers and restrict excessive overtime work through the payment of double time. Now, the subcommittee, as you know, rejected the concept of the double time, but the President recommended...
Page 91 - Average wage rates and earnings of sugarcane fleldworkers in recent years has been in excess of the wage rate testified as wage determination. Mr. MARTIN. That is true, Claude, in our sugarbeet industry in Nebraska, hourly employees last year were paid a minimum of $1.40 an hour. Mr. QUILLEN. Mr. Chairman. The CHAIRMAN. Yes. Mr. QUILLEN. Dave, I want to commend you on such a fine statement, and as the gentleman from California said, you put in a lot of time in the study of this measure. I commend...
Page 79 - The Congress should consider carefully the effects of higher minimum wage rates on the incomes of those employed and also on costs and prices, and on Job opportunities — particularly for the flood of teenagers now entering our labor force.
Page 94 - Tipped employee" means any employee engaged in an occupation in which he customarily and regularly receives more than $20 a month in tips. (u) "Man-day" means any day during which an employee performs any agricultural labor for not less than one hour. (v) "Elementary school" means a day or residential school which provides elementary education, as determined under State law.
Page 81 - Very few employers can increase wages paid to the lowest level without comparable increases at various grade levels above. This means that an employer increasing his lowest paid employees from $1.25 to $1.35...