The Application of Minimum Wages in Agriculture: Hearing, Ninetieth Congress, First SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1967 - 48 pages |
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Page 30 - ... is employed as a hand harvest laborer and is paid on a piece rate basis in an operation which has been, and is customarily and generally recognized as having been, paid on a piece rate basis in the region of employment...
Page 8 - The Supreme Court has made it clear that there is no single rule or test for determining whether an Individual is an employee or an independent contractor, but that the "total situation controls
Page 28 - In general an employee, as distinguished from a person who is engaged in a business of his own, is one who "follows the usual path of an employee" and is dependent on the business which he serves. As an aid in assessing the total situation the Court mentioned some of the characteristics of the two classifications which should be considered. Among these are: The extent to which the services rendered are...
Page 28 - US DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, WAGE AND HOUR AND PUBLIC CONTRACTS DIVISIONS, Washington, DC, May 1, 1968.
Page 16 - It will be made a part of the record at this point. (The document referred to follows :) From : Ray Hiller, World War II service-connected disabled veteran.
Page 42 - Negro boys to 30 per cent or more. Many well-meaning people favor legal minimum-wage rates in the mistaken belief that they help the poor. These people confuse wage rates with wage income. It has always been a mystery to me to understand why a youngster is better off unemployed at $1.60 an hour than employed at $1.25. Moreover, many workers in low wage brackets are supplementary earners— that is, youngsters who are just getting started or elderly folk who are adding to the main source of family...
Page 2 - ... to be accomplished, but also as to the details and the means by which it is to be accomplished.
Page 43 - ... got some real complex problems there. Mr. DENT. Well, the law is very clear that we are dealing with the employer, and if you will read the report as it is now you will find when they talk about the question of certain sharecroppers and tenant farmers they say : The test of coverage for these persons will be the same test that is applied to determine whether any other person is an employee or not. Employer, employee, and employ, are all defined terms in the act. Coverage is intended in the case...
Page 42 - It has always been a mystery to me to understand why a youngster is better off unemployed at $1.60 an hour than employed at $1.25. Moreover many workers in low wage brackets are supplementary earners — that is, youngsters who are just getting started or elderly folk who are adding to the main soure of family income. I favor governmental meausres that are designed to set a floor under family income. Legal minimum-wage rates only make this task more difficult. The rise in the legal minimum-wage rate...
Page 32 - Do you mean that a person could commute from one part of the farm to another part of the farm by wagon or mule or by riding in a truck ? Mr.