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MINIMUM WAGE LEGISLATION IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES

Summary of minimum wage

State

Legal status

Scope

Exemptions
Special licenses to. women
physically defective by
age; also to apprentices
and learners.

California.__.....'

Yonstitutional amendment,
1914; act of 1913; amended
'915. Legally in force.
lest case of 1924 not car-‘ied
 through as complaint
vas withdrawn before desision
 of court, Applicaion
 by compromise with
smployers.
ct of 1917 (earlier law, 1913).
No appropriation for carrying
 out provisions of
act: inoperative

Vomen and minors
under 18 vears nf age.

Colorado.........

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ipecial licenses to substandard
 workers (not
0 exceed one-tenth of
vorkers in establishment);
ates for learners to be
sraded on rising scale.
secial licenses to women
Yhysically defective; board
ecommends suitable
wages for learners.

Massachusetts...

Act of 1912; amended 1914, |... 00 ceemcomacccanan-1915,
 1918. Constitution: |
ality not questioned.
wet of 1913; amended 1921.
Legal for minors only.
.ct of 1919. Constitutionality
 not expressly ques-Honed.


Minnesota. . ea.

icenses to physically disabled
 women (licenses
tot to exceed one-tenth
f workers in establish
nent), but provision inoperative.

secial licenses to females
defective physically by
age or otherwise and to
ipprentices.

North Dakota

OLegO0N. a mcannnesl

wweellOncoecanunnoneeou--] Licenses to women physically
 defective or crippled
 by age or otherwise.

ret of 1913; amended 1915.
“egally in force although
:onstitutionality could be
Juestioned because of deision
 of U., 8. Supreme
Jourt as to similar laws.
Application by compromise
 with employers.
ct of 1923. Constitutionity
 not expressly quessiomed.

et of 1913. Constitutionality
 not expressly quesdnaned


Jjouth Dakota__.

Yomen and girls over
14 in factories, workshops,
 laundries, restaurants,
 etc.
OAlOS ocean caeenad]

’ermits to substandard
workers and learners.

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None for substandard workers;
 lower rate for learners.

Washington_.....| Act of 1913; amended 1917.
Legally in force although
onstitutionality could be
|uestioned because of deision
 of U. 8. Supreme
Jourt as to similar laws.
Application by compro-.nise
 with employers.
ct of 1913; amended 1925.
Portion of original act reating
 to minors legal;
»mendment relates to‘ ‘oppressive
 wage'’ instead of
minimum wage

Vomen and minors
under 18 years of age.

'pecial licenses to women
physically defective or
crippled by age or otherwise,
 and to apprentices.

Nomen and wkdorSamne

Special licenses to women
or minors unable to earn
che minimum sat

CHAP. 6.—MINIMUM WAGE FOR WOMEN IN UNITED STATES 45
laws of the United States

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Machinarvy

Principle of wage fixation

Method of enforcement

'ndustrial welfare commission;
wage hoards representing employers
 and employees.

Vage adequate to supply women
snd minors the necessary cost
»f proper iiving and to maintain
he health and welfare of such
vomen and minors.

"ines or imprisonment for violations.
 Workers may recover
smonnis due hv civil action.

ndustrial commission; wage
boards representing employers,
smployees, and the public,
®ith member of commission.

“acessary cost of igh and maintenance
 of health of employed
women. Avoidance of unreawonably
 low wages for minors.

Vorkers may recover amounts
due by civil action, commission
 to assist.

Division of minimum wage in
department of labor and industries;
 wage boards representing
 employers, employees,
and the public.
ndustrial commission; advisory
boards, representing employers.
 emploveas. and the nublio,

Teeds of the employees, the finanzizl
 condition of the occupation
and the probable effect thereon
of any increase in the minimum
wages paid.
AVIDE WARES cevccacmaecaanem anne]

i iii publication of names
of employers violating decrees.

Workers ay recover amounts
due by civil action.

¥orkmen’s compensation bureau;
 conferences, representing
 employers, employees, and
tha nublin

"ecessary cost of living and maintenance
 of health; piece rates to
tuarantee the necessary cost of
{ving to women of average
yrdinary ability and to maintain
 them in health.
recessary cost of living and maintenance
 of women in health.

Fines or imprisonment for violation;
 workers nay recover
amounts due by civil action.

ndustrial welfare commission;
conferences representing employers,
 employees. and the
public.

Do

tate fixed by State law—$12 per
week, except for apprentices
ang learners.

Not stated in law. cocememana..
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Yorkers may recover amounts
Jue bv civil action.

‘ate fixed by State law—$1.25
per day for experienced adults;
30 cents per day for adult
learners and apprentices; 75
cents per day for minors under
18 years of age.
ndustrial welfare committee in
department of labor and industries;
 advisory conferences,
representing employers, ems
plovees. and the pnhlia

Aministration by industrial
sommission. Violations proseuted
 a8 misdemeanors, punshable
 by fine or imprison
Zient.
‘ines for violations; workers i
recover amounts due by civil
action

dequacy, in the particular industry,
 to supply the necessary
s0st of living and maintain the
worker in health.

ndustrial commission; advisory
wage boards, representing employers,
 employees, and the
public, in the case of minors.

r minors, yo wage; for
women, reasonable and adejuate
 ecompensation—wage not
.0 be oppressive. Licenses for
moployers to employ adult
voren at lower wage If he can
istablish that he is unable to
»ay wage fixed, but inefficiency
f employer no reason for
ranting licenses

Mines.