| American Statistical Association - 1916 - 864 pages
...wage. They have in view the standard of the Australian arbitration court, "the normal needs of the average employee regarded as a human being living in a civilized community." Various attempts to give a definite and detailed estimate of the actual cost of living are presented... | |
| Canada. Department of Labour - 1925 - 1312 pages
...Commonwealth Arbitration Court, in the Harvester case. He took as his standard " the normal needs of the average employee regarded as a human being living in a civilized community ". This he interpreted as applying to a family of about five persons — a man, wife and three children,... | |
| 1921 - 770 pages
...in the case of unskilled labourers was involved in the question : What wage would suffice to meet " the normal needs of an average employee regarded as a human being living in a civilised community?" On this principle he fixed the fair and reasonable wage for 8n unskilled labourer... | |
| California. Special Labor Commissioner, Harris Weinstock - 1910 - 170 pages
...living wage must be secured to employees, a living wage being defined as "the money necessary to satisfy the normal needs of an average employee regarded as a human being in a civilized community ' ' ; (b) that, "if a man can not maintain his enterprise without cutting... | |
| 1913 - 558 pages
...of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court. He has repeatedly declared it to be "the normal needs of the average employee regarded as a human being living in a civilized community", and he has made this standard the basis of his decisions in the disputes concerning wages which have come... | |
| New Zealand. Department of Labour - 1914 - 1016 pages
...something else, and I cannot think of any other standard more appropriate than the normal needs of the average employee, regarded as a human being living in a civilized community. I have invited counsel and all concerned to suggest any other standard, and they have been unable to... | |
| American Statistical Association - 1914 - 948 pages
...wage. They have in view the standard of the Australian arbitration court, "the normal needs of the average employee regarded as a human being living in a civilized community." Various attempts to give a definite and detailed estimate of the actual cost of living are presented... | |
| 1914 - 492 pages
...reasonable ' must therefore be something else, and I cannot think of any other standard appropriate than the normal needs of an average employee, regarded as a human being in a civilised community. If, instead of individual bargaining, one can conceive of a collective agreement... | |
| New York (State). Factory Investigating Commission - 1914 - 720 pages
...consideration. This was later stricken out, and the basis now often used is " the normal needs of the average employee regarded as a human being living in a civilized community." The determinations of the boards are enforced by the Minister of Labor and the Factory Inspection Department.... | |
| New York (State). Legislature. Senate - 1915 - 1094 pages
...something else, and I cannot think of any other standard more appropriate than the normal needs of the average employee, regarded as a human being living in a civilized community. I have invited counsel and all concerned to suggest any other standard, and they have been unable to... | |
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