[conservative in nyc]

What she DID say was that the oversight "would be corrected as soon as possible in committee."

What committee? The conference committee on the bill? Or is this going to make the floor as a stand-alone bill? If so, and the tuna canneries threaten to close if the minimum wage there is doubled, it would crystallize all the reasons why hiking the minimum wage solves little, causing job losses and/or higher prices. Bring it on!

By the way, leaving out American Samoa from the minimum wage hike was no "oversight".

[Congressman Billybob]

I don't think this was an "oversight." Pelosi is trying to cover her corrupt tracks by pretending that this is an "oversight."

John / Billybob

[Red_Devil 232]

 

V. The American Samoa Minimum Wage - FLSA Requirements

B. Do Not Raise Minimum Wages to a Level that Substantially Curtails Employment in the Industry

The American Samoa Industry Committee is required to recommend to the Secretary industry minimums that will not be so high as to "substantially curtail employment in the industry." The Committee is required to recommend the mainland federal minimum wage unless evidence "establishes that the industry, or a predominant portion thereof is unable to pay that wage due to such economic and competitive conditions." 

American Samoa industry committees in recent years have focused primarily on that part of the FLSA wage policy that advises against establishing wage minimums that might substantially reduce employment. The committee suggests that increases in the minimum wage, specifically in the tuna industry, would result in the tuna companies relocating elsewhere.

 

http://www.dol.gov/esa/whd/AS/sec5.htm