Reports of Committees and Resolutions Adopted by Third National Conference on Labor Legislation, November 9, 10, and 11, 1936

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Страница 10 - Work permits to be required for the legal employment of those between 16 and 18 years of age. 3. At least double compensation for injured minors illegally employed ; the law to provide for approval by a competent State authority of the expenditure of the compensation granted to assure the most desirable rehabilitation and education of the injured minor.
Страница 9 - Frieda S. Miller, Director, Division of Women in Industry and Minimum Wage, New York State Department of Labor, New York City, and Carter Goodrich, United States Labor Commissioner, Geneva, Switzerland.
Страница 4 - Compensation for permanent partial disability shall be calculated on the basis of a percentage of permanent total disability and shall be payable in addition to compensation for healing period (ie, temporary disability). For administrative simplicity, there should be a schedule of permanent partial disability benefits based upon the foregoing principle. 11. Second injuries (eg, loss of second eye). — Employer...
Страница 5 - ... or deputy should be conclusive, unless appeal therefrom is taken to the entire accident board within a specified time. The accident board's disposition of the case should be final and conclusive unless appeal therefrom is taken within a specified time. Appeals from decrees of the accident board should not be allowed, except on questions of law, and should be carried direct to the highest court.
Страница 4 - ... 9. Weekly maximum and minimum compensation. — Maximum should recognize the rights of the higher-paid workers to a standard of living above the subsistence level, and minimum should be not less than the subsistence level...
Страница 4 - For administrative simplicity, there should be a schedule of permanent partial disability benefits based upon the foregoing principle. 11. Second injuries (eg, loss of second eye). — Employer to be charged as though for first injury, and balance to be paid out of specialinjury fund, both amounts not to exceed permanent total disability. 12. Second-injury fund and rehabilitation fund. — To be secured from death benefit where there are no dependents, and from payments in first major injury cases....
Страница 10 - The conference emphasizes its conviction that industrial home work serves not only to exploit the child worker but also to break down labor standards in general ; it urges the speedy enactment of legislation looking to its abolition, and urges cooperation with the Children's Bureau and the Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division of the United States Department of Labor in the administration of the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act as they apply...
Страница 28 - States have enacted into law statutes to provide for the payment of the prevailing rate of wages on public works ; and...
Страница 3 - State and municipal, but exempting possibly agriculture and domestic service. No exemptions of small employers or " nonhazardous " industries. The right of the employee to waive compensation prohibited. Extraterritorial workers to be included. In this connection reciprocity and cooperation between States is very desirable. 5. Injuries. — Define injuries to include occupational diseases. " Blanket " coverage of occupational diseases rather than " schedule
Страница 3 - Injury. — Should be defined to include occupational disease, and coverage for occupational disease should be by general or "blanket" coverage instead of under a "schedule.

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