ENGROSSED
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 470
(By Senator Hunter)
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[Originating in the Committee on Labor;
reported March 27, 1997.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact section two, article five-c, chapter
twenty-one of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine
hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to increasing the
state minimum wage to the federal standard.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section two, article five-c, chapter twenty-one of the
code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 5C. MINIMUM WAGE AND MAXIMUM HOURS STANDARDS FOR
EMPLOYEES.
§21-5C-2. Minimum wages.
(a) Minimum wage:
(1) After the thirty-first day of December, one thousand
nine hundred eighty-six, first day of October, one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven, every employer shall pay to each of his or
her employees wages at a rate not less than three four dollars
and thirty-five seventy-five cents per hour.
(2) After the thirty-first day of March first day of
September, one thousand nine hundred ninety-one ninety-eight,
every employer shall pay to each of his or her employees wages at
a rate not less than three five dollars and eighty fifteen cents
per hour.
(3) After the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine
hundred ninety-two, every employer shall pay to each of his
employees wages at a rate not less than four dollars and twenty- five cents per hour.
(b) Training wage:
(1) Notwithstanding the provisions set forth in paragraph
subsection (a) of this section, after the thirty-first day of
March, one thousand nine hundred ninety-one, any an employer may
pay an employee first hired after the first day of September, one
thousand nine hundred ninety-seven, a subminimum training wage
not less than the wage set forth in paragraph (a)(2) of section
six of the Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1989, as amended,
as in effect on the effective date of this section.
(2) An employer shall may not pay the subminimum training
wage set forth in paragraph subdivision (1) of this subsection to
any individual:
(i) Who has attained nineteen years of age or attains while
an employee of the employer, the age of twenty; or
(ii) For a cumulative period of not more than ninety days
per employee: Provided, That if any business has not been in
operation for more than ninety days at the time the employer
hired the employee, the employer may pay the employee the
subminimum training wage set forth in paragraph subdivision (1)
of this subsection for an additional period not to exceed ninety
days.