Unemployment Insurance: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of Lthe Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Eighty-first Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 8059, a Bill to Extend and Improve the Unemployment Compensation Program, and for Other Purposes

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1951 - 181 pages

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Page 64 - ... if the wages, hours, or other conditions of the work offered are substantially less favorable to the individual than those prevailing for similar work in the locality ; (C) if as a condition of being employed the individual would be required to join a company union or to resign from or refrain from joining any bona fide labor organization.
Page 14 - In the employ of the owner or tenant or other operator of a farm, in connection with the operation, management, conservation, improvement, or maintenance of such farm and its tools and equipment, or in salvaging timber or clearing land of brush and other debris left by a hurricane, if the major part of such service is performed on a farm.
Page 14 - For purposes of this chapter, the term "agricultural labor" includes all service performed — (1) on a farm, in the employ of any person, in connection with cultivating the soil, or in connection with raising or harvesting any agricultural or horticultural commodity, including the raising, shearing, feeding, caring for, training, and management of livestock, bees, poultry, and fur-bearing animals and wildlife; (2) in the employ of the owner or tenant or other operator of a.
Page 11 - wages" means all remuneration for employment, including the cash value of all remuneration paid in any medium other than cash...
Page 13 - For purposes of this chapter, the term "employee" means — (1) Any officer of a corporation; or (2) Any individual who, under the usual common law rules applicable in determining the employer-employee relationship, has the status of an employee...
Page 15 - The provisions of this paragraph shall not be deemed to be applicable with respect to service performed in connection with commercial canning or commercial freezing or in connection with any agricultural or horticultural commodity after its delivery to a terminal market for distribution for consumption. As used in this subsection, the term "farm...
Page 17 - State agencies in making payments of compensation under this title. (b) Any such agreement shall provide that compensation will be paid by the State to any Federal employee, with respect to unemployment after December 31, 1954, in the same amount, on the same terms, and subject to the same conditions...
Page 10 - For purposes of this chapter, the term "unemployment fund" means a special fund, established under a State law and administered by a State agency, for the payment of compensation.
Page 11 - ... (including any amount paid by an employer for insurance or annuities, or into a fund, to provide for any such payment), on account of (A) retirement, or (B) sickness or accident disability, or (C) medical and hospitalization expenses in connection with sickness or accident disability, or (D) death...
Page 3 - House of Representatives shall exercise continuous watchfulness of the execution by the administrative agencies concerned of any laws, the subject matter of which is within the jurisdiction of such committee; and, for that purpose, shall study all pertinent reports and data submitted to the Congress by the agencies in the executive branch of the Government.

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