Evening star., 1935-12-20
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INSURANCE DETAIL
Minute Records Are Re-
quired of Employers OF
Fewer Than Eight.

Approximately $1,000 employers of
some $4,000 employees in the District
next month must start maintenance OF
detailed monthly pay roll records,
under final rules adopted yesterday by
sthe District Unemployment Compen-
seation Board.
s4T Between February and Is. all en-
spIoyers must submit to the board or
Its designated agent payments amount
sillg to l per cent of their pay roll
totals and like sums must be paid in
leach month of 1886. In the next year
1.-The assessments will be 2 per cent and
In 1888 per cent.
$&-@ Employers of more than eight en-
ployes will be required to file with
the board monthly only statements
}eShowing in summary form the num-
ssber of employees and their pay rolls,
plus the consequent pay roll assess
fInent.
3 Action on Monthly Reports Delayed.
Il However, as to the casual or tenn
porary employees they must file with
fsthe board detailed statements show
ing the names. wages, allowances for
smeals, lodging and other employment
s,H1ds, if any, exactly as required under
ssthe new rules for employers having
& less than eight employees.
The board postponed to later date
final action on the question Of whether
sail employers must be required to file
monthly detailed reports which would
sagive complete picture of all en-
ssployes who would be eligible for COM
ipensation insurance in future years
s1if and when they become unemployed.
? Under the boards revised rules, each
I employer beginning next month would
.be required to keep a record of the
following:
g. The names of his employees; the
amount of wages paid each employe,
E'lnonthly, semi-monthly or weekly; the
.sNalue of any meals, lodging, laundry
and so forth furnished the employe
by the employer, these may be Jumped
into one sum; the amount of gratui-
sites (tips) received by the employe;
and the number of hours each employe
works each week, but if any employe
works more than 80 hours in any
: week, the record may simply show
80 hours plus
s" Any Form Acceptable.
? The employer may keep these rec
:. ords in any form he chooses. but they
must be readable and available for
immediate inspection by officials Of
the board during business hours.
& The employers are directed to keep
such detailed records until they may
be notified by the board they may be
destroyed.
The decision of the board as to
monthly reports was a compromise.
The board last month favorably con-
sidered a plan to divide the records
between permanent and casual en-
ployes, detailed reports to be required
2only on the latter. 1t has been de-
cided finally to require detailed
monthly pay roll statements for all
except those having more than eight
permanent employees. In other words
sthe employers each month must file
detailed statements as to regular en-
ployes where the number is less than
eight employees, as well as for all tenn
porary employees.
MarshaIl's Suggestion Lost.
In case of separation from their
EcINICG NIlLD4OyC1S uluoO 1L1C 1dCGc,
cluding date of birth, the sex, race
and type of employment of each en-
ploye.
John A. Marshall superintendent
of insurance, who has been designated
. director of compensation insurance,
was definitely defeated on sugges-
>tton that he be permitted to hold both
spositions. drawing the salary for but
one. that of director of unemployment
compensation insurance. the larger of
the two. The board decided compensa-
ttion insurance was enough of a job
for one man.
Definitions of the meaning of the
District compensation insurance act
also were adopted finally by the board.
which consists of the three District
Commissioners, John Locher and Dan
iel j. Callahan The final rules were
not greatly different from the ten
@tative rules formerly announced.
s Major Rulings.
Z Important points determined by the
board, on advice by Corporation Coun-
sci E. Barrett Prettyman, include the
following:
= Independent contractors are not
employers in the meaning Of the act
While exact facts must be determined,
If person be subject to the control of
another merely as to the result to be
accomplished in the work, he is an in
dependent contractor
IS Contractors who pay wages to one
or more individuals for services per-
formed for such contractors under con-
tracts of employment are contractors
Under the act. SubcontractorS who
pay wages to one or more individuals
for services performed for such sub
contractor or under contracts of en-
ployment are employers under the act.
The question of who should pay the
unemployment compensation contribu-
tton in cases of contracts and subcon-
tracts will be decided by determining
who hires and discharges the en-
ployes, who has the right to direct the
manner in which the work of the en-
ploye is performed and who actually
pays the salary.
sThe act applies to resident and non
resident employers alike so long as the
employers perform the greater part of
their services within the District.
- Act Applies to Minors.
n The act applies to minors as we'll as
to adults who are employers, the
board decided.
Receivers, trustees, administrators
and executors for whom services are
performed under contract of employ
ment and who pay the wages or re-
muneration for such services are "em-
pIoyers'' under the act
Foreign governments acting directly
In their capacity as governments are
not subject to the act and ambassa-
ders or ministers are not subject to the
act unless they are engaged in private
business, but consuls or other repre-