Equal Pay Act of 1962: Hearing...87-2... August 1, 19621962 - 103 pages |
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action AFL-CIO amount areas average earnings BARRY GOLDWATER based on sex basis bill Bureau of Labor cents an hour Commission committee comparable character Congress contracts court Department of Labor economic effect eliminate employed employer employment enacted enforcement equal pay clauses equal pay law equal pay legislation establishments factors female employees industry International job evaluation labor force Labor Statistics liquidated damages male employees manufacturing ment Minneapolis-St National numbers of women occupations operations organization paid to male PAT MCNAMARA pay for equal pay for women payment of wages percent performed plant ployee suits PREPARED STATEMENT principle of equal problem Prohibits discrimination proposal Provides QUENTIN N rates of pay requires comparable skills Retail Clerks Secretary of Labor secs seniority Status of Women subcommittee tion U.S. Department U.S. representative U.S. SENATE union United violation voluntary wage differentials based wage discrimination WAYNE MORSE WINSTON L woman women workers Women's Bureau women's earnings York
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Page 75 - Brotherhood of Railway & Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express & Station Employees...
Page 33 - ARTICLE 6 1. This Convention shall be binding only upon those Members of the International Labour Organisation whose ratifications have been registered with the DirectorGeneral. 2. It shall come into force twelve months after the date on which the ratifications of two Members have been registered with the Director-General. 3. Thereafter, this Convention shall come into force for any Member...
Page 78 - STATEMENT OF THE NATIONAL RETAIL MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION The National Retail Merchants Association is a voluntary trade organization serving more than 10,500 retail department and specialty stores, both large and small, throughout the Nation.
Page 1 - THEREFORE, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States by the Constitution and statutes of the United States, it is ordered as follows: SECTION 1.
Page 57 - 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 this Act or has testified or is about to testify in any such proceeding or because of the exercise by such employee on behalf of himself or others of any right afforded by this Act.
Page 80 - In our opinion there is no single factor in the whole field of labor relations that does more to break down morale, create individual dissatisfaction, encourage absenteeism, increase labor turnover, and hamper production than obviously unjust inequalities in the wage rates paid to different individuals in the same labor group within the same plant.
Page 90 - many women and young people work fewer hours than men and most of them earn less per hour * * *." And if we may add to Professor Long's remark, they frequently earn less for doing the same work. The fact is, as Professor Long points out, wives are less apt to work if their husbands are doing well (CD Long, The Labor Force Under Changing Income and Employment, Princeton, 1958). The correlation of work by women with low family incomes was found to be marked. The higher the income level of the husband,...
Page 33 - Each Member shall, by means appropriate to the methods in operation for determining rates of remuneration, promote and, in so far as is consistent with such methods, ensure the application to all workers of the principle of equal remuneration for men and women workers for work of equal value.