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PUBLIC LAW 89-601-SEPT. 23, 1966
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the F a i r Labor Standards Amendments of 1966, wages at the following rates: "(1) not less than $1 an hour during the first year from the effective date of such amendments, " (2) not less than $1.15 an hour during the second year from such date, "(3) not less than $1.30 an hour during the third year from such date, "(4) not less than $1.45 an hour during the fourth year from such date, and "(5) not less than $1.60 an hour thereafter." EMPLOYEES
IN
PUEKTO RICX3 A N D THE
VIRGIN
ISLANDS
Stat. 67. SEC. 304. Section 6(c) of such Act is amended to read as follows: 75 USC 206. 29 "(c)(1) The rate or rates provided by subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall be superseded in the case of any employee in Puerto '*"'^' ^' ^'^' Rico or the Virgin Islands only for so long as and insofar as such employee is covered by a wage order heretofore or hereafter issued by the Secretary pursuant to the recommendations of a special industrv committee appointed pursuant to section 5. 29 USC 205. " (2) In the case of any such employee who is covered by such a wage order and to whom the rate or rates prescribed by subsection (a) would otherwise apply, the following ra;tes shall apply: " (A) The rate or rates applicable under the most recent wage order issued by the Secretary prior to the effective date of the F a i r Labor Standards Amendments of 1966, increased by 12 per centum, unless such rate or rates are superseded by the rate or rates prescribed in a wage order issued by the Secretary pursuant to the recommendations of a review committee appointed under paragraph (C). Such rate or rates shall become effective sixty days after the effective date of the F a i r Labor Standards Amendments of 1966 or one year from the effective date of the most recent wage order applicable to such employee theretofore issued by the Secretary pursuant to the recommendations of a special industry committee appointed under section 5, whichever is later. " (B) Beginning one year after the applicable effective date under paragraph (A), not less than the rate or rates prescribed by paragraph (A), increased by an amount equal to 16 per centum of the rate or rates applicable under the most recent wa^e order issued by the Secretary prior to the effective date of the F a i r Labor Standards Amendments of 1966, unless such rate or rates are superseded by the rate or rates prescribed in a wage order issued by the Secretary pursuant to the recommendations of a review committee appointed under paragraph (C). " (C) Any employer, or group of employers, employing a maj ority of the employees in an industry in Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands, may apply to the Secretary in writing for the appointment of a review committee to recommend the minimum rate or rates to be paid such employees in lieu of the rate or rates provided by paragraph (A) or (B^. Any such application with respect to any rate or rates provided for under paragraph (A) shall be filed within sixty days following the enactment of the F a i r Labor Standards Amendments of 1966 and any such application with respect to any rate or rates provided for under paragraph (B) shall be filed not more than one hundred and twenty days and not less than sixty days prior to the effective date of the applicable rate or rates under paragraph (B). The Secretary shall promptly consider such application and may appoint a
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