Pay Advisers Want Broader Exemption To Wage Standards: Pay Advisers Want To Extend Exemptioi
The Pay Advisory Committee yesterday recommended a formula that could extend the low-wage exemption to President CarterÛªs anti-inflation guideline to at least a third of the nationÛªs work force.</br></br>The committee proposed the exemption be extended to any worker in an employe unit with average straight-time hourly eanings below $5.35.</br></br>Committee officials had no estimate of how many workers would be exempt from the wage guideline program, but the proposed standard would exempt at least one third and probably more of the total civilian work force.</br></br>In addition to the new low-wage exemption, the committee, which includes labor, business and public representatives, recommended the present exemption of any individual making less than $4 an hour also be continued.</br></br>As of October, according to Labor Department data, 28.6 percent of more than 60 million employes covered in one survey worked in business establishments whose average hourly pay was less than the $5.35 cutoff.