The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-08-22
Compliance Drive
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should be receiving higher wages than
before under the 3212 cent an hour
Wage Order for that industry. The
! Inspectors also will check on the num-
ber of workers employed by those in
dustries before and after the wage
orders went into effect. The indus
try committees were directed by Con-
gress to recommend the "highest
minimum wage rates (up to 40 cents
an hour) =. which :. will not sub
stantially curtail employment"
A majority of the factories, now to
be under special inspection, as in
most of the other industries in the
country, are complying with the Fair
Labor Standards Actor have shown
a willingness to do so as soon as mad
vertent violations are pointed out to
them by Wage and Hour Inspectors.
The Lumber Industry drive, the pres
ent fiveindustry, and future industry
by-industry drives are designed to
bring the minority into line and to
clear up Misunderstanding The
drives are not punitive, nor does the
inspection of a given industry mean
that it is more of a violator than
others. The underlying principle is
that the Wage and Hour Division is
convinced, according to Colonel Flem-
ing, that coordinated program of in
spection and education carried on 81
multaneously throughout the country,
is the best technique for cleaning up
the situations where fair employers
are threatened with cut-throat COM
petition from those who by disobeying
the law, paying subminimum wages
and avoiding overtime payments, OBJ
tain an unfair advantage by reducing
their labor and production costs.
The inspectors on this job will en-
phasize it's educational aspects. They
will first locate violations and then
by explaining to the non-complying
employer the requirements and pur-
poses of the Act and its benefits to
both employers and employees, as a
whole, attempt to bring him into vol
untary compliance. Legal action will
be taken, if necessary, but only in OBJ
durate cases, Wage and Hour officials
explain.
In many sections of these industries
most of the complaints of wage-hour
violations are for failure to pay time
and half overtime for hours worked
in excess of az. (This will be 40 after
October "a, 1940). The complaints of
failure to pay the minimum wage of
30 cents per hour have been greatly
, reduced. There continue to be numer-
Gus cases of failure of employers to
, keep the records required by the Act
and Regulations issued hereunder. In
all compliance drives, proper record
keeping will be demanded, and as a
:, result the way will be paved for quick
routine inspections in the future
which will be to the advantage Of the
employer and employees.
The Division also says that in addi-
ton to the major detectives of the
drive there Ba, minor situations
which require attention. Complaints
indicate that there are still many es,
Establishments in these industries which
are not paying watchmen overtime
l or reducing watchmen's hours to the
{ point where overtime payments are
5 not necessary; and some are not yet
I paying overtime 4to clerical workers
when they are worked more than AZ
, hours a week. 81
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