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 PUBLIC LAW 95-151—NOV. 1, 1977 (A) the beneficial effects of the minimum wage, including its effect in ameliorating poverty among working citizens; (B) the inflationary impact (if any) of increases in the minimum wage prescribed by that Act; (C) the effect (if any) such increases have on wages paid employees at a rate in excess of the rate prescribed by that Act; (D) the economic consequence (if any) of authorizing an automatic increase in the rate prescribed in that Act on the basis of an increase in a wage, price, or other index; (E) the employment and unemployment effects (if any) of providing a different minimum wage rate for youth, and the employment and unemployment effects (if any) on handicapped and aged individuals of an increase in such rate and of providing a different minimum wage rate for such individuals; (F) the effect (if any) of the full-time student certification program on employment and unemployment; (G) the employment and unemployment effects (if any) of the minimum wage; (H) the exemptions from the minimum wage and overtime requirements of that Act; (I) the relationship (if any) between the Federal minimum wage rates and public assistance programs, including the extent to which employees at such rates are also eligible to receive food stamps and other public assistance; (J) the overall level of noncompliance with that Act; and (K) the demographic profile of minimum wage workers. (2) The Commission shall conduct a study concerning the extent to which the exemptions from the minimum wage and overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 may apply to employees of conglomerates, and shall make a report, within one year after the date of the appointment of the members of the Commission, of the results of such study. For the purposes of this paragraph a "conglomerate" means an establishment (A) which controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, another establishment the activities of which are not related for a common business purpose to the activities of the establishment employing such employees and (B) whose annual gross volume of sales made or business done, when combined with the annual gross volume of sales made or business done by each establishment which controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, the establishment employing such employee, exceeds $100,000,000 (exclusive of excise taxes at the retail level which are separately stated). The report shall include an analysis of the effects of eliminating the exemptions from the minimum wage and overtime requirements of such Act that may currently apply to the employees of such conglomerates. (3) The Commission shall make a report of the results of the study conducted pursuant to paragraph (1) thirty-six months after the date of the appointment of the members of the Commission. The report shall include such recommendations for legislation as the Commission determines are appropriate. The Commission may make interim or additional reports which it determines are appropriate. Each report shall be made to the President and to the Congress. The Commission shall cease to exist thirty days after the submission of the report required by this paragraph. (4)(A) The Commission shall consist of eight members as follows: (i) Two members appointed by the Secretary of Labor.

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Study and report. 29 USC 201.

"Conglomerate."

Report to President and Congress. Legislative recommendations. Interim reportsi. Termination. Membership.

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