Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-13
WAGE QUESTIONS
THRESHED OUT
Suggestions For Determination
Submitted to the State Com
pensation Board

Important action regarding ques-
tions which have arisen in workmens
compensation matters regarding de-
out yesterday at u conference of COM
pensation and insurance officials. The
suggestions will be considered by the
board next week
AT the conference were Messrs.
Leech and Scott, of the State board,
and F. w. Nece, of the Globe Indem-
nifty Company, New York city; H. S.
Recknagel. of the Fidelity and Cas-
ualty Company, New York city; C. NJ
Gerhood, of the Pennsylvania Manu-
featuring Casualty Insurance Associa-
ton, Philadelphia; Thomas l.. Phillips,
of the United States Fidelity and Guar
antee Company, Harrisburg; Francis
n. Bohlen, legal advisor to the COM
pensation board; Paul n. Furman;
chief of the bureau of statistics; e. IL.
Downey, consulting actuary; Samuel l..
Spyker, associate counsel, and Lee
Solomon, secretary to the compensa-
ton board.
1t was decided that the computed
wages of an employe shall not include
gratuities received from the employer
or others. This action eliminates tips
received by a waiter or porter from his
wages on which compensation is based.
Wages paid for overtime work in
seasonal employments will be included
in the wage determination. Tools or
other materials furnished by the en-
ployer to be used by the employe may
not be deducted from wages unless it
is provided in the contract of employ
ment that the employer shall furnish
such materials and has the right to
deduct the price from the wages.
In coal mining where an amount is
paid for each ton of coal mined the
employer is not allowed to make de-
/ ductions for powder or dynamite sup
piled workmen unless it is so provided
in the contract of employment.
If a caterer hires a waiter to serve
at banquet and supplies a dress suit
to such waiter, the value of the use of
that suit is not to be deducted unless
it is expressly provided that men not
having dress suits will be provided
with them by the caterer and that a
stipulated sum will be deducted from
their wages for the use of said suit
A seasonal employment is defined as
one periodically suspended for periods
OF more than four weeks because of
conditions in a trade or industry. In
seasonal trades the employe must show
the total amount he has earned in all
trades for the preceding year. A
referee may require the mploye to
verify such statement by word of his
employers.
Daily wage of an employe is as
sumed as his average daily earnings
during the six months preceding the
accident or during the length of time
he has worked for the same employer.
In the event of objections to this as
sumption in a continuous employment,
the average daily earnings are COM
puted from the total earnings for
twenty-siX weeks and dividing the ag-
gregate amount by the actual number
of days during which the employe
worked for the same employer, eXclud-
ing overtime.
Weekly earnings are 8 y times the
daily earnings. Weekly earnings of
an employe hired on a monthly basis
are obtained by multiplying the
monthly salary by IL and dividing
by So.
Compensation for fractional part
of a week is determined per day by
| one sixth of the weekly compensation
for every day, including Sundays and
holidays.