Minimum wage.

WORKING DRAFT
2008
STATE OF
WYOMING
08LSO-0394

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0166

Minimum wage.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Throne, Bagby, Martin and Millin

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
labor and employment; increasing minimum wages;
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
is
amended to read:

27
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202.

Minimum wage rates.

(a)

Every employer shall pay to each of his or her employees wages at a rate of not less than
:

five dollars and fifteen cents ($5.15) per hour.

(
i
)

Six dollars and fifty-five cents ($6.55) per hour beginning July 1, 2008;

(
ii
)

Seven dollars and twenty-five cents ($7.25) per hour beginning July 1, 2009.

(b)

Effective
April 1, 2001

July 1, 2008
and thereafter, all employers who employ tipped employees shall not pay less than
two dollars and thirteen cents ($2.13)

three dollars and fifty cents ($3.50)
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.

(c)

In lieu of the rate prescribed in subsection (a) of this section, any employer may pay any employee who has not attained the age of twenty (20) years a wage which is not less than
four dollars and twenty-five cents ($4.25)

five dollars and twenty-five cents ($5.25)
per hour during the first ninety (90) consecutive days after the employee is initially employed by the employer. No employer may take any action to displace employees, including partial displacements such as reduction in hours, wages or employment benefits for purposes of hiring individuals at the wage authorized in this subsection.

Section
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This act is effective July 1, 2008.

(END)

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