CONSTITUTIONAL LAW - VALIDITY OF MINIMUM WAGE LEGISLATION UNDER THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT

A state statute provided that it should be unlawful to employ women at wages not adequate for their maintenance, and established a commission to fix wages according to such a standard after a public hearing and a conference of representatives of employees and employers, and disinterested persons representing the public. The appellee was employed as a chambermaid in the hotel of appellant at less than the minimum wage prescribed, and brought suit to recover the difference between these amounts. The state court gave judgment for the appellee, and on certiorari the Supreme Court held that the statute was valid and overruled an earlier decision which had held such legislation to be contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment. West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, (U.S. 1937) 57 S. Ct.

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