Evening star., 1938-10-22
ANDREWS GIVES
PAY-HOUR RULES
FOR EMPLOYERS
Firms Will Be Bothered as
Little as Possible With
Record.Keeping.
NO SPECIAL FORMS
ARE TO BE REQUIRED
Requests to Be Co.ordinated With
Those of Social Security.
Required Data Listed.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
Administrator Elmer F. Andrews an
nounced today he would burden en-
ployers as little as possible with record
keeping necessitated by the timeclock
regulation of workers under the Wage
Hour Act.
In publishing regulations on the kind
OF information employers should re-
cord to show compliance with the act,
which becomes effective at 1901 am.
Monday, Mr.. Andrews said no special
forms would be required. He added
ne would make an effort to coordinate
his requirements with those of the
Social Security Board and other Fed.
eral agencies.
HIS asked that facts OF this nature
Ike kept:
Employees full name, address. date
OF birth if he is under 10, hours worked
each day and each week, basis of pay
and the regular rate, also.
The wages at the regular rate of pay
for each work week excluding extra
compensation attributable to the ex-
cess of the overtime rate over the reg
ular rate.
List Of Extra Wages Needed.
Extra wages for each work week at
tributable to the excess of the over
time over the regular rate.
Additions to cash wages at cost or
deductions from stipulated wages in
the amount deducted or at the cost Of
the item for which deduction is made,
whichever is less.
Some of these items can be omitted
in the case of certain employers whose
plants will not be affected by them,
the administrator said.
The regulation on forms was one Of
the last Mr.. Andrews will issue before
the act goes into effect.
His Offices were flooded with In
quiries for information today, while
some Of his chief aides prepared a
general roundup of the administra-
tion's work under the act to date,
which will be released for publication
tomorrow morning.
= In asfurther attempt to clarity the
public understanding of the measure.
Mr. Andrews will make q sexies. Of
radio broadcssts tomorrow afternoon.
He said he would attempt to answer
as many as possible Of the general
questions asked by business men in
the last few days.
Child Labor Controlled.
Hundreds of thousands of wage.
earners are completing today their
last week of unregulated employment.
When they return to their jobs Mon.
day morning, a pay rate of Is cents
an hour will have become the legal
minimum for all who produce goods
going into interstate commerce or
whose work, in the words of a recent
Supreme Court decision, places q
burden" on interstate commerce.
Their standard work week will have
been established at A hours, with the
requirement that they be compensated
at the rate Of time and one-half Tor
each hour of overtime.
1t also will have become illegal to
employ in mining or manufacturing
1AAouoe11co dIly One uHQer 10 years OF
age or to employ in an industry off,
c1ally declared to be hazardous" anv
person less than 18. Children between
IA and Is may be given limited EN-.
ployment in non-mining and nom
manufacturing industries.
$4,000 Fine Fixed.
These three principal provisions Of
the law are complicated by a great
variety OF special exemptions which
Administrator Andrews has ATTEMPTED
to clarity by official rulings. He has
refrained, however, from applying these
rulings to any particular industry. ex-
planning that each employer must de-
eide for himself whether his business
comes under the ruling. An employer
may, however, appeal to the admin
strator for guidance.
Wage-hour officials pointed out that
the courts, rather than the admins
traitor, constitute the final authority
(See WAGE-HOUR. Page A-61