SF0036 - Minimum wage.
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2001 |
State of Wyoming |
01LSO-0161 |
SENATE FILE NO. SF0036
Minimum wage.
Sponsored by: Joint Labor, Health and Social Services
Interim Committee
A BILL
for
1 AN ACT relating to the
state minimum wage; increasing the
2
state minimum wage to be consistent with the current
3 federal
minimum wage; providing exceptions as specified;
4
repealing conflicting provisions; and providing for an
5
effective date.
6
7 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
8
9 Section
1. W.S. 27-4-201(a)(iii) and 27-4-202 are
10 amended to read:
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12 27-4-201. Definitions.
13
14 (a) As used in this act:
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1 (iii) "Employer"
includes any individual,
2
partnership, association, corporation, business trust, or
3 any
person or group of persons acting directly or
4
indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an
5
employee, but shall not include any employer
whose annual
6 gross volume of sales made or business done is less than
7 five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00);
8
9 27-4-202. Minimum wage rates.
10
11 (a) Every
employer shall pay to each of his or her
12 employees, wages at a rate of not less than one dollar and
forty cents
($1.40) per hour from June 1, 1971, to December
31, 1971; one
dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) per hour from
January 1, 1972
to December 31, 1972; and one dollar and
sixty cents
($1.60) per hour, thereafter five dollars
and
17 fifteen cents
($5.15) per hour.
18
19 (b) For the purpose of this law, in determining the
wage
rate of a tipped employee, the amount paid such
employee
by his employer shall be deemed to be increased on
account
of tips received by an employee by an amount not in
excess
of fifty percent (50%) of the applicable minimum
wage.
Provided, however, in all cases the minimum wage paid
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1 by an employer to his employee shall not be less than one
dollar and ten cents ($1.10) per hour
effective June 1,
1971 and thereafter. Effective April 1, 2001 and
4 thereafter, all employers who employ
tipped employees shall
5 not pay less than two dollars and
thirteen cents ($2.13)
6 per hour to his tipped employees.
Provided further, if the
7 wage paid by the employer combined
with the tips received
8 by the employee during a given pay
period does not equal at
9 least the applicable minimum wage as
prescribed in
10 subsection
(a) of this section, the employer shall pay the
11 difference
to the tipped employee. For the purposes of this
12 act, all "tip" employees shall
furnish monthly to their
13 respective employers the daily record of
tips required to
14 be kept by "tip" employees under
the laws of the United
15 States and upon the forms prescribed by the
internal
16 revenue service of the United States
treasury department.
17 Said The daily record of tips shall constitute prima
facie
18 proof of the amount of tips received by such an the
19 employee. Proof of a customary tipping
percentage of sales
20 or service shall also be an admissible form
of proof of the
21 amount of tips. A "tip" employee
is one who customarily and
22 regularly receives more than twenty dollars ($20.00) thirty
23 dollars ($30.00)
a month in tips.
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1 (c) In lieu of the
rate prescribed in subsection (a)
2 of this section, any employer may pay
any employee who has
3 not attained the age of twenty (20)
years a wage which is
4 not less than four dollars and
twenty-five cents ($4.25)
5 per hour during the first ninety (90)
consecutive days
6 after the employee is initially
employed by the employer.
7 No employer may take any action to
displace employees,
8 including partial displacements such
as reduction in hours,
9 wages or employment benefits for
purposes of hiring
10 individuals
at the wage authorized in this subsection.
11
12 Section 2. W.S. 27-4-201(a)(iv)(F) and (J) is
13 repealed.
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15 Section 3. This act is effective April 1, 2001.
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17 (END)
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