Twelfth Biennial Report Of The Bureau Of Labor Statistics Of The State Of California 1905 1906 Classic Reprint

Author : California Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331305173
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Eighteenth Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the State of California, 1917-1918 (Classic Reprint) written by California Bureau of Labor Statistics and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-18 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Eighteenth Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the State of California, 1917-1918 The Eighteenth Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics covers the two fiscal years ending June 30, 1918, and is the fourth bien nial published under the present Commissioner of Labor. In the past eight years this department of state has won the respect of employers and the public at large and earned the confidence of the men and women who must toil for their existence. Offices are now maintained in the cities of San Francisco, Los, Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego and Fresno. The Fresno office was Opened in September, 1918, and is conducted in connection with the functions of the Industrial Accident Commission. That this bureau is a department of service to the public can no longer be doubted. It is the first place appealed to by the unemployed; a court of speedy redress where the unfortunate toiler may secure justice; it serves as an arbitrator of irritating disputes that arise in the industrial field and maintains a vigorous campaign in the enforcement of the labor laws of California. A brief resume of the activities of the bureau for the past two years will serve as the best evidence of its usefulness and worth. The total expense for the past two years was while the contingent receipts for the same period were The bureau therefore cost the people of this state for the past two years In return for this expenditure the bureau, through its Free Employment Bureaus, furnished to the working people of California positions which, if secured through the fee agencies, would have cost these same workers The bureau collected in wage claims during the past two fiscal years Private employment agencies were forced to refund fees and expenses amounting to and to furnish two hundred new positions without further cost to the employed. The record for the past seven years shows that this department has investigated complaints and of these complaints were for nonpayment of wages. The amount of wages collected for the past seven years is The claims filed against employment agencies for this period total 4677 and fees and expenses ordered returned amount to During the same period the bureau has conducted 738 prosecutions and secured four hundred convictions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.