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B. Questions on COVerage
5. What is meant by covered
employee?
One who is engaged in interstate
or foreign commerce, or in the pro-
ductiOn of goods for such COM
merce, including occupations close
ly related and directly essential to
such production.
6. Does a worker actually have
to be making some kind of goods
in order to be covered?
No. The law also covers such
persons as office employees, watch
men, guards, pOrters and other
maintenance workers, shipping
clerks and transportation workers,
and sales personnel, among others.
Z. If a manufacturer sells ali his
products within the State, are his
employees covered?
They may be. If, at the time of
producing the goods, the manu-
facturer knows or has reason to
believe that they will be shipped
out of the State, directly or in
directly, or as a part or ingredient
of other goods, his employees are
covered.
.C. Questions on Exemptions
g. What is an exemption?
An exemption is a provision of
the law which says that covered"
employee need not be paid accord
ing to the laws pay provisions.
There are some exemptions from
both the minimum wage and over
time provisions; other are over
time pay exemptions only and may
be complete or partial. Some ex-
emptiOns apply to certain indus
tries, others to employees in speci-
fic occupations. There are also
few exemptions from the child
labor provisions.
8. Has the law any special pro-
visions for women workers?
No. The law applies the same way
to both male and female employees.
1t also applies to home workers,
as we'll as factory and office en-
ployees.
10. Does the law apply only to
workers paid an hourly rate?
whether pay is by the hour, or on
salary, piece-wOrk or other basis.
The worker must be paid AT a
RATE OF at least $1OO an hour
and time and one-half his regular
rate for overtime, no matter what
the basis of payment.
IL. If an employee works 8 hours
in one day, is he entitled to over
time pay for the ninth hour, as
such?
No. Overtime begins after 40
hours of work in the workweek.
There is no daily overtime require
ment.
II. Is the overtime rate time and
one-half the $1.00-an-hour mini
mum?
No. Overtime must be computed
at time and one-half the employees
regular hourly rate of pay. If he's
paid at rate of $500 an hour, his
overtime would be $500 an hour.
13. Must employees of retail
stores be paid $1.0O an hour and
time and one-half after 40 hours a
week?
Generally no. The law provides
an exemption for retail and service
establishments, provided certain
tests are met.
IA. What are some typical retail
establishments?
These are some of the kinds OF
retail establishments that are us
ually exempt: Automobile dealers
barber shops, beauty parlors, cloth
ing stores, department stores, dry
goods stores, drug stores, farm
implement dealers, filling stations
furniture stores, garages, grocery
stores, hospitals, hotels, movies and
theaters. There are others, too.
Is. Does the law apply to waitress
ses and other restaurant workers
No. Restaurants generally are
exempt as service establishments
Is. Does the retail establishment
exemption apply to warehouse
workers of retail chain-store or
ganizations?
No. These workers are not with
in the exemption.
II. Are laundry workers subject
to the laws pay provisions?
The ordinary home laundry is
exempt. But if laundry does more
than 25 percent of its work for
manufacturing, mining, transporta-