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To amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish a retirement system for employees of carriers subject to the Interstate Commerce Act, and for other purposes," approved August 29, 1935.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

PART I

That the Act of August 29, 1935, entitled "An Act to establish a retirement system for employees of carriers subject to the Interstate Commerce Act, and for other purposes," be, and it is hereby, amended to read as follows:

"DEFINITIONS

"SECTION 1. For the purposes of this Act

"(a) The term 'employer' means any carrier (as defined in subsection (m) of this section), and any company which is directly or indirectly owned or controlled by one or more such carriers or under common control therewith, and which operates any equipment or facility or performs any service (except trucking service, casual service, and the casual operation of equipment or facilities) in connection with the transportation of passengers or property by railroad, or the receipt, delivery, elevation, transfer in transit, refrigeration or icing, storage, or handling of property transported by railroad, and any receiver, trustee, or other individual or body, judicial or otherwise, when in the possession of the property or operating all or any part of the business of any such employer: Provided, however, That the term 'employer' shall not include any street, interurban, or suburban electric railway, unless such railway is operating as a part of a general steam-railroad system of transportation, but shall not exclude any part of the general steam-railroad system of transportation now or hereafter operated by any other motive power. The Interstate Commerce Commission is hereby authorized and directed upon request of the Board, or upon complaint of any party interested, to determine after hearing whether any line operated by electric power falls within the terms of this proviso. The term 'employer' shall also include railroad associations, traffic associations, tariff

1 This is the statutory reference to the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937. Ibid., 50 Stat. 307.

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bureaus, demurrage bureaus, weighing and inspection bureaus, collection agencies and other associations, bureaus, agencies, or organizations controlled and maintained wholly or principally by two or more employers as hereinbefore defined and engaged in the performance of services in connection with or incidental to railroad transportation; and railway labor organizations, national in scope, which have been or may be organized in accordance with the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, as amended, and their State and National legislative committees and their general committees and their insurance departments and their local lodges and divisions, established pursuant to the constitution and bylaws of such organizations. The term 'employer' shall not include any company by reason of its being engaged in the mining of coal, the supplying of coal to an employer where delivery is not beyond the mine tipple, and the operation of equipment or facilities therefor, or in any of such activities."

"(b) The term 'employee' means (1) any individual in the service of one or more employers for compensation, (2) any individual who is in the employment relation to one or more employers, and (3) an employee representative. The term 'employee' shall include an employee of a local lodge or division defined as an employer in subsection (a) only if he was in the service of or in the employment relation to a carrier on or after the enactment date. The term 'employee representative' means any officer or official representative of a railway labor organization other than a labor organization included in the term 'employer' as defined in section 1 (a) who before or after the enactment date was in the service of an employer as defined in section 1 (a) and who is duly authorized and designated to represent employees in accordance with the Railway Labor Act, as amended, and any individual who is regularly assigned to or regularly employed by such officer or official representative in connection with the duties of his office.

"The term 'employee' shall not include any individual while such individual is engaged in the physical operations consisting of the mining of coal, the preparation of coal, the handling (other than movement by rail with standard railroad locomotives) of coal not beyond the mine tipple, or the loading of coal at the tipple.2

"(c) An individual is in the service of an employer whether his service is rendered within or without the United States if he is subject to the continuing authority of the employer to supervise and direct the manner of rendition of his service, which service he renders for compensation: Provided, however, That an individual shall be deemed to be in the service of an employer not conducting the principal part of its business in the United States only when he is rendering service to it in the United States: Provided further, That an individual not a citizen or resident of the United States shall not be deemed to be in the service of an employer when rendering service outside the United States to an employer who is required under the laws applicable in the place where the service is rendered to employ therein, in whole or in part, citizens or residents thereof; and the laws applicable on August 29, 1935, in the place where the service is

2 Amended by Pub., No. 764-76th Cong., ch. 664, 3d sess., approved August 13, 1940.

rendered shall be deemed to have been applicable there at all times prior to that date.'

“(d) An individual is in the employment relation to an employer if he is on furlough, subject to call for service within or outside the United States and ready and willing to serve, or on leave of absence, or absent on account of sickness or disability; all in accordance with the established rules and practices in effect on the employer: Provided, however, That an individual shall not be deemed to be in the employment relation to an employer. unless during the last pay-roll period in which he rendered service to it he was with respect to that service in the service of an employer in accordance with subsection (c) of this section.3

"(e) The term 'United States,' when used in a geographical sense, means the States, Alaska, Hawaii, and the District of Columbia.

"(f) The term 'years of service' shall mean the number of years an individual as an employee shall have rendered service to one or more employers for compensation or received remuneration for time lost, and shall be computed in accordance with the provisions of section 3 (b): Provided, however, That where service prior to the enactment date may be included in the computation of years of service as provided in subdivision (1) of section 3 (b), it may be included as to service rendered to a person which was on the enactment date an employer, irrespective of whether, at the time such service was rendered, such person was an employer; and it may also be included as to service rendered to any express company, sleeping-car company, or carrier by railroad which was a predecessor of a company which, on the enactment date, was a carrier as defined in subsection (m), irerespective of whether, at the time such service was rendered to such predecessor, it was an employer. Twelve calendar months, consecutive or otherwise, in each of which an employee has rendered such service or received such wages for time lost, shall constitute a year of service. An ultimate fraction of six months or more shall be taken as one year. An ultimate fraction of less than six months shall be taken at its actual value.

"(g) The term 'annuity' means a monthly sum which is payable on the 1st day of each calendar month for the accrual during the preceding calendar month.

"(h) The term 'compensation' means any form of money remuneration earned by an individual for services rendered as an employee to one or more employers, or as an employee representative, including remuneration paid for time lost as an employee, but remuneration paid for time lost shall be deemed earned in the month in which such time is lost. Such term does not include tips, or the voluntary payment by an employer, without deduction from the remuneration of the employee, of any tax now or hereafter imposed with respect to the compensation of such employee. For the purposes of determining monthly compensation and years of service and for the purposes of subsections (a), (c), and (d) of section 2 and subsection (a) of section 5 of this Act, compensation earned in the service of a local lodge or division of a railway-labor-organization employer shall be disregarded with respect to any calendar month if the amount thereof

8 Amended by Pub. Res., No. 81-76th Cong., ch. 807, 3d sess., approved June 11, 1940.

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