Middlekamp v. Willis

DUNCAN, Justice.

This consolidated appeal is from two judgments of the lower court sustaining directory and mandatory orders of the Commissioner of Industrial Relations dated August 25, 1950 and July 19, 1951, respectively. The two orders' established new minimum wage rates for female and minor employees in the hotel and restaurant industry in Kentucky, ranging from 60⅜⅞ per.hour for non-service employees and 45⅜⅝ per'hour'for service employees in Zone 1 to 56¾⅜ per hour for non-service employees and 41 ‡ per hour for service employees in Zone 3. The distinction between service and non-service…