Minimum wage for tipped employees.

WORKING DRAFT
2006
STATE OF
WYOMING
06LSO-0298

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0050

Minimum wage for tipped employees.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Bagby and Goggles and Senator(s) Sessions

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to labor and employment; increasing the minimum wage for tipped employees; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Wyoming
:

Section 1.

W.S. 27
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4
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202(b) is amended to read:

27
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202.

Minimum wage rates.

(b)

Effective April 1,
2001
2006
and thereafter, all employers who employ tipped employees shall not pay less than
two dollars and thirteen cents ($2.13)
four dollars ($4.00)
per hour to his tipped employees. Provided further, if the wage paid by the employer combined with the tips received by the employee during a given pay period does not equal at least the applicable minimum wage as prescribed in subsection (a) of this section, the employer shall pay the difference to the tipped employee. For the purposes of this act, all "tip" employees shall furnish monthly to their respective employers the daily record of tips required to be kept by "tip" employees under the laws of the United States and upon the forms prescribed by the internal revenue service of the United States treasury department. The daily record of tips shall constitute prima facie proof of the amount of tips received by the employee. Proof of a customary tipping percentage of sales or service shall also be an admissible form of proof of the amount of tips. A "tip" employee is one who customarily and regularly receives more than thirty dollars ($30.00) a month in tips.

Section 2.
This act is effective April 1, 2006.

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