 | Herbert Feis - 1924 - 500 pages
...CAR 55). In finding the living wage, I look, therefore, to find what money is necessary to satisfy "the normal needs of the average employee regarded as a human being living is a civilized community." In the present case, it was reassuring to find that the counsel for the... | |
 | 1925 - 432 pages
...under the age of 14 to support. Those requirements were judicially though somewhat vaguely defined as " the normal needs of the average employee regarded as a human being living in a civilised community." Costs of living therefore became the determining factor in fixing the minimum... | |
 | Eliot Jones - 1925 - 908 pages
...basic wage" — the minimum to be awarded to unskilled laborers on the basis of "the normal needs of an average employee regarded as a human being living in a civilized community"; and the other, the "secondary wage" — the extra payment to be made for trained skill or other exceptional... | |
 | Ting Tsz Ko - 1926 - 238 pages
...wage, or primary wage, is meant that rate which is assigned to unskilled laborers on the basis of " the normal needs of the average employee regarded as a human being living in a civilized community." The basic wage is then really the minimum standard wage for all normal unskilled labor. By secondary... | |
 | 1926 - 808 pages
...acceptance of the now classic declaration that the basic or living wage should be big enough to satisfy "the normal needs of the average employee, regarded...as a human being living in a civilized community" (Judge Higgins). This guiding rule was supported by two others. (1) An industry which cannot afford... | |
 | Arthur Wilberforce Jose, Herbert James Carter, Thomas George Tucker - 1927 - 862 pages
...really meant by variations in the purchasing power of money. The 'basic wage' is assumed to provide for the normal needs 'of the average employee regarded...as a human being living in a civilized community.' This wage was first fixed by a judicial decision in 1907, and the priceindex numbers of the Commonwealth... | |
 | American Institute of Banking - 1926 - 520 pages
...minimum wage control. An Australian judge has defined the minimum wage as "the wage necessary to satisfy the normal needs of the average employee, regarded...as a human being living in a civilized community." Many of the American states have passed such legislation for women in those lines of employment which... | |
 | Albert Russell Ellingwood, Whitney Coombs - 1926 - 670 pages
...each district up to the standard of the best employer in that district." In another the standard is "the normal needs of the average employee regarded...as a human being living in a civilized community." Which do you prefer and why? 4. Would it be practicable to have a minimum wage scale which varied with... | |
 | Albert Russell Ellingwood, Whitney Coombs - 1926 - 672 pages
...each district up to the standard of the best employer in that district." In another the standard is "the normal needs of the average employee regarded...as a human being living in a civilized community." Which do you prefer and why? 4. Would it be practicable to have a minimum wage scale which varied with... | |
 | Eveline Mabel Burns - 1926 - 472 pages
...meaning to be placed upon the phrase "fair and reasonable wages". Henceforth it meant a wage based upon " the normal needs of the average employee, regarded as a human being living in a civilised community." Of more importance still was the translation of that interpretation into concrete... | |
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I cannot think of any other standard appropriate than the normal needs of the average employee, regarded as a human being living in a civilized community. 
