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101 Monthly Lab. Rev. 1 (1978)

handle is hein.journals/month101 and id is 1 raw text is: MONTHLY LABOR REVIEW JANUARY 1978 VOLUME 101, NUMBER 1 Henry Lowenstern, Editor-in-Chief Robert W. Fisher, Executive Editor Douglas R. LeRoy Peyton Elder Gregory J. Mounts Victor J. Sheifer Daniel M. Kohler Scott Campbell Brown Allyson Sherman Grossman 3 Scheduled wage increases and escalator provisions in 1978 The average deferred wage increase will be 5.1 percent, down from 5.9 percent in 1977; nearly 4.5 million workers under major agreements will have cost-of-living reviews 9 The 1977 amendments to the Federal minimum wage law Roughly in line with estimated rates under rejected indexing formula, the minimum wage was increased to $2.65 an hour on January 1 and will reach $3.35 an hour by 1981 12 Labor and the Supreme Court: significant decisions of 1976-77 The Court weakened several of Title VlI's job bias bans, endorsed a new NLRB policy ,narrowing the 'work preservation' doctrine, and upheld public-sector agency shops 18 How benefits will be incorporated into Employment Cost Index First introduced as a measure of wage change, the index is being expanded to include total compensation, that is, wages, salaries, and fringe benefits 22 The Employment Cost Index: a review of the statistics REPORTS 27 Moonlighting increased sharply in 1977 30 Children of working mothers, March 1977 DEPARTMENTS Labor month in review Special labor force reports-summaries Research summaries Foreign labor developments Major agreements expiring next month Developments in industrial relations Book reviews Current labor statistics

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