This paper offers a contract-based theory to explain the determination of standard hours,overtime hours and overtime premium pay. We expand on the wage contract literaturethat emphasises the role of firm-specific human capital and that explores problems ofcontract efficiency in the face of...

Open wage rate hearing Monday. - All sides to be heard at Coulee dam--referee Schedler arrives. - Assurance that the wage rate hearing at Grand Coulee dam will be expedited in order to establish promptly the wage scale which will apply under the new contract, was given by Carl R. Schedler,...

More pay idea echoed at dam. - Labor heads and MWAK official think higher wage needed in next contract. - Under Carl R. Schedler of Washington, D. C., the department of labor today began its public hearing to determine the prevailing wage in this area to arrive at a new wage schedule for...

Employees get $22,623 profits Average bonus of $165 given pine sash workers. Profit sharing bonus checks of $22,623 were distributed among 137 employees of the White Pine Sash company at the annual dinner in the Elizabethan rooms, Davenport hotel, last night. The smallest check was $111 and the...

A time series analysis was performed on medical scheme statistics with the aim of determining current and future demographic and economic trends. This would enable one to reach a better perspective on the current and future financial dilemma presently experienced by medical schemes. Data for the...