Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 29 : Section 210


   
U.S. Code as of: 01/19/04
Section 210. Court review of wage orders in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands

      (a) Any person aggrieved by an order of the Secretary issued
    under section 208 of this title may obtain a review of such order
    in the United States Court of Appeals for any circuit wherein such
    person resides or has his principal place of business, or in the
    United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, by
    filing in such court, within 60 days after the entry of such order
    a written petition praying that the order of the Secretary be
    modified or set aside in whole or in part. A copy of such petition
    shall forthwith be transmitted by the clerk of the court to the
    Secretary, and thereupon the Secretary shall file in the court the
    record of the industry committee upon which the order complained of
    was entered, as provided in section 2112 of title 28. Upon the
    filing of such petition such court shall have exclusive
    jurisdiction to affirm, modify (including provision for the payment
    of an appropriate minimum wage rate), or set aside such order in
    whole or in part, so far as it is applicable to the petitioner. The
    review by the court shall be limited to questions of law, and
    findings of fact by such industry committee when supported by
    substantial evidence shall be conclusive. No objection to the order
    of the Secretary shall be considered by the court unless such
    objection shall have been urged before such industry committee or
    unless there were reasonable grounds for failure so to do. If
    application is made to the court for leave to adduce additional
    evidence, and it is shown to the satisfaction of the court that
    such additional evidence may materially affect the result of the
    proceeding and that there were reasonable grounds for failure to
    adduce such evidence in the proceedings before such industry
    committee, the court may order such additional evidence to be taken
    before an industry committee and to be adduced upon the hearing in
    such manner and upon such terms and conditions as to the court may
    seem proper. Such industry committee may modify the initial
    findings by reason of the additional evidence so taken, and shall
    file with the court such modified or new findings which if
    supported by substantial evidence shall be conclusive, and shall
    also file its recommendation, if any, for the modification or
    setting aside of the original order. The judgment and decree of the
    court shall be final, subject to review by the Supreme Court of the
    United States upon certiorari or certification as provided in
    section 1254 of title 28.
      (b) The commencement of proceedings under subsection (a) of this
    section shall not, unless specifically ordered by the court,
    operate as a stay of the Administrator's order. The court shall not
    grant any stay of the order unless the person complaining of such
    order shall file in court an undertaking with a surety or sureties
    satisfactory to the court for the payment to the employees affected
    by the order, in the event such order is affirmed, of the amount by
    which the compensation such employees are entitled to receive under
    the order exceeds the compensation they actually receive while such
    stay is in effect.



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