Bill Text: CT HB06208 | 2017 | General Assembly | Comm Sub
Bill Title: An Act Increasing The Minimum Wage.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-10 - Referred by House to Committee on Appropriations [HB06208 Detail]
Download: Connecticut-2017-HB06208-Comm_Sub.html
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January Session, 2017 |
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AN ACT INCREASING THE MINIMUM WAGE.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 31-58 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2017):
(a) "Commissioner" means the Labor Commissioner;
(b) "Fair wage" means a wage fairly and reasonably commensurate with the value of a particular service or class of service rendered, and, in establishing a minimum fair wage for such service or class of service under this part, the commissioner, without being bound by any technical rules of evidence or procedure, (1) may take into account all relevant circumstances affecting the value of the services rendered, including hours and conditions of employment affecting the health, safety and general well-being of the workers, (2) may be guided by such considerations as would guide a court in a suit for the reasonable value of services rendered where services are rendered at the request of an employer without contract as to the amount of the wage to be paid, and (3) may consider the wages, including overtime or premium rates, paid in the state for work of like or comparable character by employers who voluntarily maintain minimum fair wage standards;
(c) "Department" means the Labor Department;
(d) "Employer" means any owner or any person, partnership, corporation, limited liability company or association of persons acting directly as, or on behalf of, or in the interest of an employer in relation to employees, including the state and any political subdivision thereof;
(e) "Employee" means any individual employed or permitted to work by an employer but shall not include any individual employed in camps or resorts which are open no more than six months of the year or in domestic service in or about a private home, except any individual in domestic service employment as defined in the regulations of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, or an individual employed in a bona fide executive, administrative or professional capacity as defined in the regulations of the Labor Commissioner or an individual employed by the federal government, or any individual engaged in the activities of an educational, charitable, religious, scientific, historical, literary or nonprofit organization where the employer-employee relationship does not, in fact, exist or where the services rendered to such organizations are on a voluntary basis, or any individual employed as a head resident or resident assistant by a college or university, or any individual engaged in [baby sitting] babysitting, or an outside salesman as defined in the regulations of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, or any individual employed by a nonprofit theater, provided such theater does not operate for more than seven months in any calendar year, or a member of the armed forces of the state performing military duty, as such terms are defined in section 27-61;
(f) A resort is defined as an establishment under one management whose principal function it is to offer lodging by the day, week, month or season, or part thereof, to vacationers or those in search of recreation;
(g) "Employ" means to employ or suffer to work;
(h) "Wage" means compensation due to an employee by reason of his employment;
(i) "Minimum fair wage" in any industry or occupation in this state means a wage of not less than six dollars and seventy cents per hour, and effective January 1, 2003, not less than six dollars and ninety cents per hour, and effective January 1, 2004, not less than seven dollars and ten cents per hour, and effective January 1, 2006, not less than seven dollars and forty cents per hour, and effective January 1, 2007, not less than seven dollars and sixty-five cents per hour, and effective January 1, 2009, not less than eight dollars per hour, and effective January 1, 2010, not less than eight dollars and twenty-five cents per hour, and effective January 1, 2014, not less than eight dollars and seventy cents per hour, and effective January 1, 2015, not less than nine dollars and fifteen cents per hour, and effective January 1, 2016, not less than nine dollars and sixty cents per hour, and effective January 1, 2017, not less than ten dollars and ten cents per hour, and effective January 1, 2018, not less than eleven dollars per hour, and effective January 1, 2019, not less than twelve dollars per hour, and effective January 1, 2020, not less than thirteen dollars per hour, and effective January 1, 2021, not less than fourteen dollars per hour, and effective January 1, 2022, not less than fifteen dollars per hour or one-half of one per cent rounded to the nearest whole cent more than the highest federal minimum wage, whichever is greater, except as may otherwise be established in accordance with the provisions of this part. Not later than July 1, 2022, and each July fifteenth thereafter, the Labor Commissioner shall announce an adjustment in the minimum fair wage which shall be equal to the percentage increase in the consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers in the northeast urban area of New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, with no seasonal adjustment, as calculated by the United States Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, for the calendar year last completed prior to the date of each such announcement over the calendar year completed immediately prior to that calendar year. The then existing minimum fair wage plus the adjustment announced by the Labor Commissioner on July fifteenth, rounded to the nearest five cents, shall become the new minimum fair wage and shall be effective on the January first immediately following. All wage orders in effect on October 1, 1971, wherein a lower minimum fair wage has been established, are amended to provide for the payment of the minimum fair wage herein established except as hereinafter provided. Whenever the highest federal minimum wage is increased, the minimum fair wage established under this part shall be increased to the amount of said federal minimum wage plus one-half of one per cent more than said federal rate, rounded to the nearest whole cent, effective on the same date as the increase in the highest federal minimum wage, and shall apply to all wage orders and administrative regulations then in force. The rates for learners, beginners, and persons under the age of eighteen years shall be not less than eighty-five per cent of the minimum fair wage for the first two hundred hours of such employment and equal to the minimum fair wage thereafter, except institutional training programs specifically exempted by the commissioner.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: | ||
Section 1 |
October 1, 2017 |
31-58 |
Statement of Legislative Commissioners:
The calculation of the adjustment was revised to clarify the time frame of actions to take place in the future.
LAB |
Joint Favorable Subst. -LCO |