Minimum Wage: Hearings Before the Subcommittee No. 3, Eighty-ninth Congress, First Session, on H. R. 648, to Amend the District of Columbia Minimum Wage Law to Provide Broader Coverage, Improved Standards of Minimum Wage and Overtime Compensation Protection, and Improved Means of Enforcement, and H. R. 6494

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Considers H.R. 648 and H.R. 6494, to amend the D.C. minimum wage law to provide broader coverage and improved enforcement.
 

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Página 7 - President, upon notice and hearing, for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office, but for no other cause. (b) A vacancy in the Board shall not impair the right of the remaining members to exercise all the powers of the Board, and two members of the Board shall, at all times, constitute a quorum.
Página 123 - The community is not bound to provide what is in effect a subsidy for unconscionable employers. The community may direct its law-making power to correct the abuse which springs from their selfish disregard of the public interest.
Página 19 - The provisions of sections 6 and 7 shall not apply with respect to ( 1 ) any employee employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, professional, or local retailing capacity, or in the capacity of outside salesman (as such terms are defined and delimited by regulations of the Administrator...
Página 20 - No person shall discharge or in any manner discriminate against any employee because such employee has filed any complaint or instituted or caused to be instituted any proceeding under or related to...
Página 9 - Any employer who discharges or in any other manner discriminates against any employee because such employee has testified. or is about to testify, or because such employer believes that said employee may testify, in any investigation or...
Página 20 - Action to recover such liability may be maintained in any court of competent jurisdiction by any one or more employees for and in behalf of himself or themselves and other employees similarly situated...
Página 14 - Employer" includes any person acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee...
Página 3 - Except as otherwise provided in this section, no employer shall employ any of his employees who is engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce for a workweek longer than forty hours, unless such employee receives compensation for his employment in excess of the hours above specified at a rate not less than one and one-half times the regular rate at which he is employed.
Página 70 - Let it be granted, then, that, as a rule, workman and employer should make free agreements and in particular should freely agree as to wages; nevertheless, there is a dictate of nature more imperious and more ancient than any bargain between man and man, that the remuneration must be enough to support the wage earner in reasonable and frugal comfort.
Página 5 - Orders issued under this section shall define the industries and classifications therein to which they are to apply, and shall contain such terms and conditions as the Administrator finds necessary to carry out the purposes of such orders, to prevent the circumvention or evasion thereof, and to safeguard the minimum wage rates established therein.

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