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Overtime Pay:
Analysis
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workers to whom the overtime provi
sion of the Fair Labor Standards Act
applies.
Of the agreements that called for
weekly overtime pay, 93 percent spec
ified that such payment wa? to be
made after a 40-hour work week;
about' 5 percent—mostly in apparel,
lumber, printing, and telephone and
telegraph—specified overtime pay af
ter work weeks ranging from 30 to
37||| hours. A few additional agree
ments,,, with basic weekly work sched
ules of less than 40 hours, stipulated
that overtime pay was not to begin
until after 40 hours.
Data secured by field visit in eight
industries were studied to supplement
the analysis of union agreements. In
these industries, payment of time and
a half after 40 hours was almost uni
versal.
Firms employing almost all office
workers studied in 12 important cities
during 1949-50 paid premium rates for
overtime; 87 per cent of the workers
were affected by the Fair Labor Stand
ards Act pattern—time and a half after
40 hours a week—whether or not they
were subject to the act. An additional
10 percent received time and a half
after a shorter weekly schedule. Less
than 2 percent were employed in es
tablishments that either provided no
overtime rate or never worked over
time. The principle of daily overtime
applied to only about a third of the
office workers, largely concentrated in
manufacturing establishments.
Premium pay for work on Sundays
not scheduled as regular workdays was
specified in two-thirds of the union
agreements analyzed, covering more
than half of the employees involved.
Double time was specified in more than
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three-fourths of these agreements,
covering four-fifths of the workers.
The remaining agreements prescribed
time and a half. In general, premium-
rate provisions for Sunday work did
not make payments contingent on the
number of hours or days previously
worked during the week.
Observance of holidays was provided
in all but 4 percent of the agreements
analyzed. In 58 percent, all holidays
recognized were paid for; 23 percent
granted unpaid holidays exclusively;
and 15 percent provided both paid and
unpaid holidays.
Among the agreements providing
penalty rates for work on paid holi
days, about two-thirds specified double
time. Two and a half times the regular
rate was required by 16 percent of the
agreements and triple time by 6 per
cent. Most of the remainder provided
for time and a half.
About three-fifths of the agreements
providing a penalty rate for work on
unpaid holidays specified a rate of
time and a half. Nearly all of the re
maining agreements required double
time for holiday work.
(Com piled fro m a n article b y F re d erick
W. M ueller, D ivision of W age S tatistics, and
Jam es C. N ix, Division, of In d u stria l R ela
tions—M onthly L abor R eview , A ugust, 1951.)
George Fuermann tells of a Houston
music lover Who inquired in a music
store for a record of a certain Bach
chorale. The clerk said they didn’t have
any song about a back corral, but how
would Frankie Lane’s “Mule Train”
do? —Matt Weinstock in Los Angeles
Daily News.
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