The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-15
WAGE AND HOUR
 LAW EFFECTIVE
 ON OCTOBER 25
Major Provisions of New
 Act Are Outlined Tn Following Article
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Continued from Page One) committee constitutes a quorum and a majority decision of the quorum prevails.
 Sections six and seven get into the meat of the bill. Section six deals with minimum wages, set ting up a Accent hour minimum at the end of seven years. Here's what the Act says:
 Meat of COcoanut
 (a) Every employer shall pay to each of his employees who is en- gagged in commerce or in the pro- duction of goods for commerce wages in the following rates
 CD During the first year from the effective date of this section, not less than 25 cents an hour.
 (2) During the next six years from such date, not less than 30 cents an hour.
 (3) After the expiration of sev- en years from such date, not less than 40 cents an hour, or the rate (not less than, 30 cents an hour) prescribed in the applicable order of the Administrator issued under Section 8, whichever is lower, and
 (4 At any time after the eff fective date of this section, not less than the rate, not in excess of 40 cents an hour, prescribed in the applicable order of the Administra- tor issued under Section 8.
 (b) This section shall take effect upon the expiration of 120 days from the date of enactment of this Ace.
 Section seven sets up the work week and reads as follows:
 Hour Provisions
 (a) No employer shall, except as otherwise provided in this section, employ any of his employees who is engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce
 CD for a workweek longer than A hours during the first year from the effective date of this section.
 CD for a workweek longer than 42 hours during the second year from such date, or
 t3) for a workweek longer than 40 hours after the expiration of second years from such date,
 Unless such employee receives compensation for his employment in excess of the hours above speci- fled at rate of not less than one and one-half times the regular rate at which he is employed
 (b) No employer shall be deem- ed to have violated subsection (a) by employing any employee for a workweek in excess of that speci- fled in such subsection without paying the compensation for over time employment prescribed therein if such employee is so employed
 Other Regulations
 CD in pursuance of an agree ment, made as result of collective bargaining by representatives of certified as bona fide by the National Labor Relations Board, which provides that no employee shall be employed more than 1000 hours during any period of 26 consecutive weeks,
 CD on an annul basis in pur- suance of an agreement with his employer, made as a result of col lective bargaining by representatives or employees certified as bona fide by the National Labor Relations Board, which provides that the em- ployee shall not be employed more than 2,000 hours during any period of 52 consecutive weeks, or
 (3) for a period or periods of not more than IA workweeks in the in any calendar year in an industry found by the Admin to be of a season nature, a nd if such employee receives compensation for employment in excess of 12 hours in any work day, or for employment in excess of 56 hours in any workweek, as the case may be, at a rate not less than one and one-half times the regular rate at which he is em- ployed.
 This section also deals with cer- tain exemptions, mainly seasonal and its exemp io n clause reads as follows:
 Seasonal Exemptions
 General and seasonable exemp- Iions-(c) In the case of an en- ployer engaged in the first process ing of milk, whey, skinned milk, pr cream into dairy products, or in the ginning and compressing of cotton, or in the processing of cot-l