Ahead of the Curve web profiles. indd - sos. wa. gov Elsie Parrish had reached her limit No stranger to perseverance, she was a toddler when her father died in a gruesome farm accident She was married at 15 and bore seven children As a chambermaid, she scrubbed toilets and changed bed sheets for a living
The Case of the Chambermaid and the Nine Old Men Late in the summer of 1933, Elsie Lee, a woman of about 40 who would soon be Elsie Parrish, had taken a job as a chambermaid at the Cascadian Hotel in Wenatchee, entrepôt for a beautiful recreation area reaching from the Columbia valley to the Cascades, and the country’s foremost apple market
West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish - Wikipedia The case arose when hotel maid Elsie Parrish sued for the difference between her wages and the minimum wage set by the State of Washington
West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish – Case Brief Summary - Studicata In West Coast Hotel Co v Parrish, Elsie Parrish, a chambermaid at the West Coast Hotel, sued her employer to recover the difference between the wages she was paid and the minimum wage fixed by a Washington state law
West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish: The Case That Saved Nine and Redefined . . . This isn't a hypothetical; it's the true story of Elsie Parrish, a chambermaid in Washington state in the 1930s She was legally owed $216 19 (over $4,500 in today's money) based on the state's minimum wage law, but her employer, the West Coast Hotel, refused to pay
Professor’s book on landmark Supreme Court case clarifies history “Making Minimum Wage: Elsie Parrish versus the West Coast Hotel Company” tells a human story behind the 1937 court decision in the University of Oklahoma Press publication, and started as a journal article in 2010 when Knowles was a visiting assistant professor at Whitman College in Washington
West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish – (IRAC) Case Brief Summary Elsie Parrish and her husband filed a lawsuit in Washington state court against West Coast Hotel Co for not paying the state-mandated minimum wage The trial court ruled in favor of West Coast Hotel Co , but the Washington Supreme Court reversed this decision