| Show WAGE LAW GOES IN State Attorney Gen General ral Holds HOlIS Third Class Postmasters Postmasters Post- Post I masters Bound by It It PLEASANT GROVE CASE Ruling Declares Clerk Who Works in Store Is Not a Federal Employee minimum wago waJo law ll Is held to apply to third class postmasters as aswell aswell aswell well as a.'s a. a to merchants In fn certain cases and that the tho fact of their being being- federal federa agents does docs not permit such postmasters to employ women at nt less than tho the minimum wage Tho The law was so 50 construed construed construed con con- In an opinion Issued yesterday b by A A. A H It Barnes attorney general In answer to a query quer from II H. T. T 1 state tato commissioner of Immigration la la Ia- bor and statistics Tho Thu circumstance which brought forth the opinion was w as encountered at nt Pleasant Grove o by b A A. L. L Toone deputy commissioner who found that the postmaster postmaster postmaster post post- master at that place was employing employing- an un experienced woman at 15 per month The government Ro allows her but 10 per month tho the balance of or her salar salary being made up by the postmaster out of his own pocket locket Tho Thu minimum wago re requirement ro- ro under the tho state law for that class cliss of ot help Is 15 a day When hen that requirement was brou brought ht to his Ills attention the tho postmaster de declared declared de- de dared ho he could do nothing because the woman was wa a federal employee Of Official Cicio 1 Opinion Following is the tho text of the tho attorney no ne ney generals general's opinion I have been asked whether or not sectIon 1 1 chapter 63 of the Utah laws Jaws of i. i 1913 the tho minimum wage law Is ap ap- ap- ap in a n. case caio where a third class s postmaster r employs s 's an experienced adult female to assist him In tho post- post 0 coIt co it apP appears that tho the postmaster has been beon employing a n. young oung woman In his office eIght hours six dos days a week weck and ono one and one-half one hours Sundays Bundas and has haI been paying hor but UG 16 a month for her services Tho postmaster re refuses ro- ro fuses fuges to pay tho the minimum fixed by tho the law for tor tho the reason reason as ho claims that Bl she Is Js a a. government clerk of ot tho the postoffice postoffice post- post office department In my opinion the position taken b by the postmaster is not tenable The woman employed b by him Is In no sense of the word a government nt clerk Sh She Is employed b by him and not b by the postoffice department n The yearly earl allowance J made mado by b tho the cc department to him for dencal clerical cleri den cal assistance ma may ho bo expended b by him In an any manner anner which ho he may ay see tit fit to adopt He is In no better P po position than any other employer of female labor antI and f the tho law should d b be applied In ln his Is case case |
