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PUBLIC LAW 381-AUG. 12, 1955

position in which he served during such period, or (B) within one year after the effective date of this Act, meets such noncompetitive examination standards as the United States Civil Service Commission shall prescribe; and (4) has completed, prior to reappointment under this section, 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 position 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 appointment 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. Public Law 381

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Effective date.

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.

Be it enacted by 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, together 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 productivity 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: "Minimum 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 striking out the second sentence and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "The industry committee shall investigate conditions in the

August 12, 1955 [S. 2168]

Fair Labor Stand" ar d s Amendments of 1955. Report to Congress. 52 Stat. 1062. 29 USC 204 (d).

Minimum w a g e. 63 Stat. 912. 29 USC 206 (a). Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands. 63 Stat. 915. 29 USC 208 (a). 63 Stat. 911. 29 USC 205 (a). 29 USC 208.

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