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PUBLIC LAW 89-684-0CT. 15, 1966

965

REVISION OF WAGE ORDERS

"SEC. 6. (a) At any time after a wage order has been in effect for one year the Commissioners may on their own motion reconsider the wage rates set in such wage order. If, after investigation, the Commissioners are of the opinion that any substantial number of workers in the occupation covered by such wage order are receiving wages insufficient to provide adequate maintenance and to protect health they may convene an ad hoc advisory committee for the purpose of considering and inquiring into and reporting to the Commissioners on the subject investigated by the Commissioners and submitted by them to such committee. " (b) The committee shall be composed of not more than three persons representing the employers in such occupation, of an equal number representing the employees in such occupation, of not more than three persons representing the public, and one or more representatives of the agency designated by the Commissioners to administer this Act. Such agency shall name and appoint all the members of the committee and designate its chainnan. Two-thirds of the members of the committee shall constitute a quorum, and any decision, recommendation, or report of the committee on the subject submitted to it shall require an affinnative vote of not less than a majority of all its members. "(c) The Commissioners shall present to the committee such information as they might have relating to the subject they submitted to the committee, and may cause to be brought before the committee any witnesses whose testimony the Commissioners consider material. " (d) Within sixty days after the convening of the committee by the Commissioners, the committee shall make and transmit to the (Commissioners a report containing its findings and recommendations on the subject submitted to it by the Commissioners. "(e) The committee report shall include a recommendation for minimum wages for the employees in the occupation under consideration, but the minimum wage rates recommended shall not be less than those prescribed in subsection (a)(1) of section 3. In making such recommendation the committee shall take into consideration (1) the amount of wages sufficient to provide adequate maintenance and to protect health, (2) the fair and reasonable value of the work performed, and (3) the wages paid in the District of Columbia by fair employers for work of like or comparable character. The committee report shall also include recommendations for reasonable allowances for board, lodging, or other facilities or services, customarily furnished by the employer to the employees, or reasonable allowances for gratuities customarily received by employees in any occupation in which gratuities have customarily and usually constituted and have been recognized as a part of the remuneration for hiring purposes. The committee report may also recommend suitable minimum wages for learners and apprentices in the occupation under consideration, where it appears proper or necessary, and may recommend the maximum length of time any such employee may be kept at such wages as a learner or apprentice. The minimum wages recommended for learners and apprentices may be less than the mniimum wages recommended for other employees in such occupation. The committee may make a separate inquiry into and report on any branch of any occupation and may recommend different minimum wages for such branch of employment in the same occupation. "(f) If such committee fails to submit a report to the Commissioners within the period specified in subsection (d), the Commissioners may (1) discharge such committee from further consideration of the subject

Advisory committee.

Membership of committee.

Committee report.

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