An Act to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 in order to increase the national minimum wage, and for other purposes.
PL 84-381 (S.2168), enacted 08/12/1955

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position in which he served during such period, or (B) within 
one year after the effective date of this Act, meets such non-
competitive examination standards as the United States Civil 
Service Commission shall prescribe; and 
(4) has completed, prior to reappointment under this sec-
tion, a total of continuous or intermittent satisfactory service 
aggregating not less than three years on the rolls in a position 
or positions in the competitive civil service; 
may, during the period ending two years after the effective date of 
this Act, be reappointed without competitive examination to a posi-
tion in the competitive civil service for which he is qualified and 
such reappointment (except reappointment to a position involving 
temporary job employment) shall be a career-conditional appoint-
ment or a career appointment determined by the appropriate United 
States Civil Service Commission regulations governing conversions 
to career-conditional or career appointments in accordance with 
Executive Order Numbered 10577, dated November 22, 1954. 
SEC. 4. The United States Civil Service Commission is hereby 
authorized and directed to promulgate such rules and regulations as 
it determines to be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. 
SEC. 5. Nothing in this Act shall affect, or be construed to affect, 
the application of section 1310 of the Supplemental Appropriation 
Act, 1952 (Public Law 253, Eighty-second Congress), as amended. 
SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect on the ninetieth day following the 
date of its enactment. 
Approved August 12, 1955. 
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Rules and regti-' 
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Effective date. 
Public Law 381 
CHAPTER 867 
AN ACT 
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 in order to increase the national 
minimum wage, and for other purposes. 
August 12, 1955 
[S. 2168] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That this Act may 
be cited as the "Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1955". 
SEC. 2. Subsection (d) of section 4 of the Fair Labor Standards 
Act of 1938, as amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof 
the following: "Such report shall contain an evaluation and appraisal 
by the Secretary of the minimum wages established by this Act, to-
gether with his recommendations to the Congress. 
In making such 
evaluation and appraisal, the Secretary shall take into consideration 
any changes which may have occurred in the cost of living and in pro-
ductivity and the level of wages in manufacturing, the ability of 
employers to absorb wage increases, and such other factors as he 
may deem pertinent." 
SEC. 3. Effective March 1, 1956, paragraph (1) of subsection (a) 
of section 6 of such Act is amended by striking out "75 cents" and 
inserting in lieu thereof "$1". 
SEC. 4. Effective July 1, 1956, subsection (a) of section 8 of such 
Act is amended by inserting at the end thereof the following: "Min-
imum rates of wages established in accordance with this section shall 
be reviewed by such a committee at least once each fiscal year." 
SEC. 5. (a) Subsection (a) of section 5 of such Act is amended 
by striking out "and the administrator" in the last sentence. 
(b) Subsection (b) of section 8 of such Act is amended by strik-
ing out the second sentence and inserting in lieu thereof the follow-
ing: "The industry committee shall investigate conditions in the 
Fair Labor Stand" 
ar d s Amendments 
of 1955. 
R e p o r t to Con-
gress. 
52 Stat. 1062. 
29 u s e 204 (d). 
Minimum wage. 
63 Stat. 912. 
29 u s e 206 (a). 
Puerto Rico and 
Virgin Islands. 
63 Stat. 915. 
29 u s e 208 (a). 
63 Stat. 911. 
29 u s e 205 (a). 
29 u s e 208. 
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FR. 
52 Stat. 1065. 
29 u s e 210 (a). 
Court review. 
62 Stat. 928. 
"Secretary*'. 
industry and the committee, or any authorized subcommittee thereof, 
shall after due notice hear such witnesses and receive such evidence 
as may be necessary or appropriate to enable the committee to per-
form its duties and functions under this Act." 
(c) Subsection (c) of section 8 is amended by striking out "and 
the Administrator" in the second sentence. 
(d) Subsection (d) of section 8 of such Act is amended to read 
as follows: 
"(d) The industry committee shall file with the Secretary a report 
containing its findings of fact and recommendations with respect to 
the matters referred to it. Upon the filing of such report, the Sec-
retary shall publish such recommendations in the Federal Register 
and shall provide by order that the recommendations contained in 
such report shall take effect upon the expiration of 15 days after 
the date of such publication." 
(e) Subsection (e) of section 8 of such Act is amended by striking 
out the last sentence. 
(f) Subsection (a) of section 10 of such Act is amended to read as 
follows: 
"SEC. 10. (a) Any person aggrieved by an order of the Secretary 
issued under section 8 may obtain a review of such order in the United 
States Court of Appeals for any circuit wherein such person resides 
or has his principal place of business, or in the United States Court 
of Appeals for the District of Columbia, by filing in such court, within 
60 days after the entry of such order a written petition praying that 
the order of the Secretary be modified or set aside in whole or in part. 
A copy of such petition shall forthwith be served upon the Secretary, 
and thereupon the Secretary shall certify and file in the court a tran-
script of the record of the industry committee upon w^hich the order 
complained of was entered. 
Upon the filing of such transcript such 
court shall have exclusive jurisdiction to affirm, modify, or set aside 
such order in whole or in part, so far as it is applicable to the peti-
tioner. 
The review by the court shall be limited to questions of law, 
and findings of fact by such industry committee when supported by 
substantial evidence shall be conclusive. No objection to the order of 
the Secretary shall be considered by the court unless such objection 
shall have been urged before such industry committee or unless there 
were reasonable grounds for failure so to do. If application is made 
to the court for leave to adduce additional evidence, and it is shown to 
the satisfaction of the court that such additional evidence may mate-
rially aflfect the result of the proceeding and that there were reason-
able grounds for failure to adduce such evidence in the proceedings 
before such industry committee, the court may order such additional 
evidence to be taken before an industry committee and to be adduced 
upon the hearing in such manner and upon such terms and conditions 
as to the court may seem proper. 
Such industry committee may 
modify the initial findings by reason of the additional evidence so 
taken, and shall file with the court such modified or new findings 
which if supported by substantial evidence shall be conclusive, and 
shall also file its recommendation, if any, for the modification or 
setting aside of the original order. 
The judgment and decree of the 
court shall be final, subject to review by the Supreme Court of the 
United States upon certiorari or certification as provided in section 
1254 of title 28 of the United States Code. 
SEC. 6. The term "Secretary" as used in this Act and in amendments 
made by this Act means the Secretary of Labor. 
Approved August 12, 1955.