OVERTIME IN AMERICA
WASHINGTON, June 8.
The Supreme Court has ruled that the Federal Wage Hour Act does not require extra pay for overtime to employees whose fixed weekly salary jg large enough to meet the enacted minimum wage requirements and whose hourly wage is fixed by contract. The decision in the case affecting several million white collar workers upheld the Government's contention that additional compensation for over* time must, in the absence of contract for specific hourly wage, be paid to employees even though they received fixed weekly salary above the amount required by the wage hour taw.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 135, 10 June 1942, Page 5
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