Portal-to-portal Wages: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eightieth Congress, First Session, on S. 70, a Bill to Exempt Employers from Liability for Portal-to-portal Wages in Certain Cases, and for Other Purposes. January 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 27, and 30, 1947Considers employer exemption from paying certain "portal to portal" employee wages. |
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Page 651 - paid or accrued" or "paid or Incurred", dependent upon the method of accounting upon the basis of which the net income Is computed, unless in order to clearly reflect the Income the deductions or credits should be taken as of a different period. • * * Sec. 48. Definitions. When used in this chapter — (c) "paid or Incurred," "paid or accrued." The terms "paid or Incurred
Page 40 - Any employer who violates the provisions of section 6 or section 7 of this Act shall be liable to the employee or employees affected in the amount of their unpaid minimum wages, or their unpaid overtime compensation, as the case may be, and in an additional equal amount as liquidated damages.
Page 46 - Except as otherwise provided in this section, no employer shall employ any of his employees who is engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce for a workweek longer than forty hours, unless such employee receives compensation for his employment in excess of the hours above specified at a rate not less than one and one-half times the regular rate at which he is employed.
Page 109 - Action to recover such liability may be maintained in any court of competent jurisdiction by any one or more employees for and in behalf of himself or themselves and other employees similarly situated.
Page 697 - that the laws of the several states, except where the Constitution, treaties or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States in cases where they apply.
Page 181 - A judicial inquiry investigates, declares, and enforces liabilities as they stand on present or past facts and under laws supposed already to exist.
Page 112 - ... The repeal of any statute shall not have the effect to release or extinguish any penalty, forfeiture, or liability incurred under such statute, unless the repealing Act shall so expressly provide, and such statute shall be treated aa still remaining in force for the purpose of sustaining any proper action or prosecution for the enforcement of such penalty, forfeiture, or liability.
Page 761 - You, therefore, are hereby commanded that such further proceedings be had in said cause, in conformity with the opinion and decree of this court as according to right and justice, and the laws of the United States, ought to be had, the said appeal notwithstanding.
Page 2 - The court in such action shall, in addition to any judgment awarded to the plaintiff or plaintiffs, allow a reasonable attorney's fee to be paid by the defendant, and costs of the action.