. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. ISSUE OF JUNE 1967 / VOLUME 32 - NO. 2 LABOR AND THE PROUTY AMENDMENT Any grower who has attempted to under- stand the minimum wage law has probably broken out in a cold sweat. It takes a law de- gree to be able to interpret its language. On February 1, 1967, the minimum wage law went into effect. On that date, also, em- ployers of farm labor, for the first time in his- tory, must pay a minimum wage of $1 per hour. One year from the above date, the mini- mum wage increases automatically to $ per hour and the rinal step, which t
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. ISSUE OF JUNE 1967 / VOLUME 32 - NO. 2 LABOR AND THE PROUTY AMENDMENT Any grower who has attempted to under- stand the minimum wage law has probably broken out in a cold sweat. It takes a law de- gree to be able to interpret its language. On February 1, 1967, the minimum wage law went into effect. On that date, also, em- ployers of farm labor, for the first time in his- tory, must pay a minimum wage of $1 per hour. One year from the above date, the mini- mum wage increases automatically to $ per hour and the rinal step, which takes place on February 1, 1969 will make the minimum for farm workers $ per hour. In order to be covered by the minimum wage law, an employer must "use" 500 man-days of labor on his farm during any quarter of the preceding calendar year. One farm worker employed one or more hours wdthin one day is considered a man-day. Members of the employers immediate family are not to be figured in when figuring the num- ber of man-days. Also not be figured in man- days are workers employed in hand-harvest on a piece basis if he commutes daily from his permanent residence and was employed less than 13 weeks in the preceding year. (And if piece rate methods are customary in that farm's area.) Growers do not have to pay minimum wages as mentioned above or to workers 16 years old or less, employed in hand harvest on a piece rate basis as above who works on the same farm as his parents and is paid the same piece rate as workers over 16 on the same farm. The new law does not require covered farm workers be paid time and one-half after 40 hoifrs a week. What growers are concerned about is the fact that the writers of the minimum wage law refused to accept an amendment which would have included piece-rate wages in the Established 1936 by Clarence J. Hall at Wareham, Mass. Publisher COMOR PUBLISHERS Box 70, Kingston, Mass. 02360 617—585-2310 Editor DONALD CHARTIER 30 Sewell St., Broc
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