Application of the Fair Labor Standards Act to Blind and Handicapped Workers: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Labor Standards of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 8104 ... May 10 and 11, 1978U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978 - 236 pages |
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Page 121 - ... labor conditions detrimental to the maintenance of the minimum standard of living necessary for the health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers...
Page 4 - SNOWB) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor A BILL To amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1985, 1986, and 1987, and for other purposes.
Page 122 - Act but not less than 50 per centum of such wage and which are commensurate with those paid nonhandicapped workers in industry in the vicinity for essentially the same type, quality, and quantity of work.
Page 52 - Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
Page 89 - Administrator, to the extent necessary in order to prevent curtailment of opportunities for employment, shall by regulations or by orders provide for (1) the employment of learners, of apprentices...
Page 95 - Committee's primary means for achieving its objective is to direct the Government's procurement of selected commodities and services to qualified workshops serving the blind and other severely handicapped. The 15 members on the Committee are appointed by the President. Eleven members represent various Government agencies and four are private citizens who are conversant with the problems in employing the blind and other severely handicapped.
Page 21 - HR 4287 before the SUBCOMMITTEE ON LABOR STANDARDS COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 29, 1977 I am Doctor Lorin E.
Page 132 - ... which provide, among other things, that during the first year of operation of the Act a minimum wage of 25 cents per hour shall be paid to employees "engaged in [interstate] commerce or the production of goods for [interstate] commerce...
Page 135 - ... expected earnings of a nonhandicapped person for the production shown. Where productivity is measured by means of progress reports, records must relate the worker's performance to that of a nonhandicapped person receiving the prevailing wage in industry for similar work or work requiring similar skills. Records of time studies made to establish piece rates must be kept. (c) Learning periods, when such periods are authorized by the certificate, which show the daily hours worked by each handicapped...
Page 95 - ... envelopes must be purchased under the catalog for Blank Paper and Envelopes, Inks, Glues, Miscellaneous Supplies and Services, issued by GPO for the District of Columbia. (g) When items are available under Federal Supply Service contracts; (h) When products and services are listed in the Procurement List of the Committee for Purchase from the Blind and Other Severely Handicapped and are not stocked by GSA; (i) When items are listed in the Schedule of Products Made in Federal Penal and Correctional...