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Labor Law- Fair Labor Standards Act- Right Of Employees To Waive Payment Of Award Of Back Wages, Spencer E. Irons
Labor Law- Fair Labor Standards Act- Right Of Employees To Waive Payment Of Award Of Back Wages, Spencer E. Irons
Michigan Law Review
In July, 1940, the Wage-Hour Administrator obtained a consent decree restraining defendant from violating the Fair Labor Standards Act, and a stipulation was filed which provided, among other things, that defendant should restore to its employees the difference between wages actually paid and the minimum wages which should have been paid under the act. Twelve of the fifteen employees in whose favor the award was made endorsed over the checks which they received with out obtaining any actual cash, and executed releases for the amounts due to them. In the present proceeding, the administrator sought a rule to show cause …
Labor Law - Fair Labor Standards Act - Tips Not Considered Wages In Computing Statutory Minimum, Reed T. Phalan
Labor Law - Fair Labor Standards Act - Tips Not Considered Wages In Computing Statutory Minimum, Reed T. Phalan
Michigan Law Review
After the enactment of the Fair Labor Standards Act, defendant terminal company adopted the so-called "make up" plan towards its redcap station porters. Under the plan, tips received by redcaps could, as formerly, be retained by them; in addition the redcap would report to the defendant the amounts received in tips, and the defendant would make up the deficiency if the tips did not aggregate the minimum legal wage. After the plan had been in operation for a time, plaintiff, agent and representative of the redcaps, brought suit for the difference between the amounts paid by the defendant and the …