Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Powerlessness: Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, First and Second Sessions ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1970 - 6316 pages |
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Page 4923 - That all persons employed on the farm in the production, cultivation, or harvesting of sugar beets or sugarcane with respect to which an application for payment is made shall have been paid in full for all such work, and shall have been paid...
Page 4675 - ... the administrative discretion vested in him by law is not arbitrarily abused, as in this case, but is reasonably exercised with some substantial basis in fact to support it. Such is the traditional function of the court upon review of administrative action of the kind here involved. Id. at p. 441. Defendants here have made a similar argument to that in Western Addition, Supra — that this Court cannot review the practices of the Farm Labor Service because to do so would be to 'supervise" the...
Page 4630 - Gomez v. Florida State Employment Service, 417 F.2d 569 (5th Cir. 1969) Chief Judge John R.
Page 4677 - Unless we make the requirements for administrative action strict and demanding, expertise, the strength of modern government, can become a monster which rules with no practical limits on its discretion.
Page 4801 - In order to allow landowners now to make a profit off their farms, they want to get the cheapest labor they can find, and if they get the Mexican labor, it enables them to make a profit.
Page 4620 - I have read the foregoing requisition and know the contents thereof, and the same is true of my own knowledge, except as to the matters which are therein stated on information and belief, and as to those matters I believe it to be true.
Page 4653 - Worker the opportunity for employment for at least three-fourths of the Workdays of the total period during which the Work Contract and all extensions thereof are in effect, beginning with the day after the Mexican Worker's arrival at the place of employment and ending on the termination date specified in this Work Contract or its extensions, if any.
Page 4923 - ... that may be determined by the Secretary to be fair and reasonable after investigation and due notice and opportunity for public hearing...
Page 4616 - Said discrimination constitutes a denial of due process and equal protection in violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States . CLASS ACTION 38.
Page 4653 - Worker fails to work during a Workday, when he is afforded the opportunity to do so by the Employer, and all hours...