Volume 48
Public Law 73–482
To effectuate the purpose of certain statutes concerning rates of pay for labor, by making it unlawful to prevent anyone from receiving the compensation contracted for thereunder, and for other purposes.
Approved June 13, 1934
Statutory text
AN ACT
To effectuate the purpose of certain statutes concerning rates of pay for labor, by making it unlawful to prevent anyone from receiving the compensation contracted for thereunder, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That whoever shall induce any person employed in the construction, prosecution, or completion of any public building, public work, or building or work financed in whole or in part by loans or grants from the United States, or in the repair thereof to give up any part of the compensation to which he is entitled under his contract of employment, by force, intimidation, threat of procuring dismissal from
Punishment for.
such employment, or by any other manner whatsoever, shall be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
Sec. 2.
To aid in the enforcement of the above section, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of the Interior jointly shall make reasonable regulations for contractors or subcontractors on any such building or work, including a provision that each contractor
Weekly sworn statement required.
and subcontractor shall furnish weekly a sworn affidavit with respect to the wages paid each employee during the preceding week.
Approved, June 13, 1934.