| John Rogers Commons, John Bertram Andrews - 1916 - 550 pages
...basis, but this clause has since been stricken out. A standard now- often used is "the normal pccds of the average employee regarded as a human being living in a jdyjlizea community," ' which insures a living wage in the broader sense of the term, noLa mere subsistence... | |
| Mary Theresa Rankin - 1916 - 224 pages
...their perplexity they have interpreted the law to mean various things : (1) The normal needs of an average employee regarded as a human being, living in a civilized community (Mr. Justice Hig1gins). (2) Not to leave wages to the " higgling of the market," but still with reference... | |
| United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics - 1916 - 744 pages
...and wage board in Australia and also to New Zealand, has declared the basis of minimum wages to be "the normal needs of the average employee regarded...as a human being living in a civilized community." This "irreducible minimum" for the adult man has been interpreted to be a family wage for an unskilled... | |
| United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics - 1918 - 1442 pages
...It has been said that as to what is fair and reasonable there is no standard more appropriate than "the normal needs of the average employee, regarded...as a human being living in a civilized community." WAGES — MINIMUM-WAGE LAW — COXSTITUTIOXALITT — Williams v. Evans et a2., Supreme Court of Minnesota... | |
| United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics - 1916 - 942 pages
...the minimum rate for unskilled labor when he declared that it should be an amount necessary to meet the "normal needs of the average employee regarded as a human being living hi a civilized community." This wage in a recent case before the court was fixed at 50 shillings ($12.17).... | |
| 1919 - 982 pages
...expression in the Harvester case to the now famous principle that the minimum wage must be determined by "the normal needs of the average employee regarded...as a human being living in a civilized community." The minimum wage for unskilled laborers was then fixed at 8s. a day. Although prices were rising in... | |
| 1919 - 608 pages
...pressure on anything and everything, except human life," that there must be a minimum living wage based on "the normal needs of the average employee, regarded as a human being living in a civilised community." The anonymous author pointedly remarks that "the Australian people accept a practical... | |
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