OVERTIME PAYMENT
DECISION OF U.S. SUPREME COURT (Rec. 9 p.m.) WASHINGTON, June 8. The Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Wage Hour Act does not require extra pay for overtime to employees whose fixed weekly salary is large enough to meet the enacted minimum wage requirements, and whose hourly wage is fixed by contract. A decision in another case, affecting several million white-collar workers, upheld the Government’s contention that additional compensation for overtime must, in the absence of a contract for a specific hourly wage, be paid employees even though they received a fixed weekly salary above the amount required by the Wage Hour Law. The Senate voted to increase the minimum pay of the armed forces to 50 dollars monthly for first class privates, and for corresponding naval ratings to 54 dollars monthly, all to be effective as from June 1.
The House of Representatives has twice voted for these increases, but the Senate had previously refused.
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Southland Times, Issue 24766, 10 June 1942, Page 5
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