PRINTER'S NO. 600
No. 576 Session of 1995
INTRODUCED BY HUGHES, FEBRUARY 15, 1995
REFERRED TO LABOR AND INDUSTRY, FEBRUARY 15, 1995
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of January 17, 1968 (P.L.11, No.5), entitled
2 "An act establishing a fixed minimum wage and overtime rates
3 for employes, with certain exceptions; providing for minimum
4 rates for learners and apprentices; creating a Minimum Wage
5 Advisory Board and defining its powers and duties; conferring
6 powers and imposing duties upon the Department of Labor and
7 Industry; imposing duties on employers; and providing
8 penalties," further providing for the amount of the minimum
9 wage.
10 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
11 hereby enacts as follows:
12 Section 1. Section 4(a) and (a.1) of the act of January 17,
13 1968 (P.L.11, No.5), known as The Minimum Wage Act of 1968,
14 amended or added December 15, 1988 (P.L.1232, No.150), are
15 amended to read:
16 Section 4. Minimum Wages.--Except as may otherwise be
17 provided under this act:
18 (a) Every employer shall pay to each of his employes wages
19 for all hours worked at a rate of not less than:
20 (1) Two dollars sixty-five cents ($2.65) an hour upon the
21 effective date of this amendment.
1 (2) Two dollars ninety cents ($2.90) an hour during the year
2 beginning January 1, 1979.
3 (3) Three dollars ten cents ($3.10) an hour during the year
4 beginning January 1, 1980.
5 (4) Three dollars thirty-five cents ($3.35) an hour after
6 December 31, 1980.
7 (5) Three dollars seventy cents ($3.70) an hour beginning
8 February 1, 1989[, and thereafter].
9 (6) Five dollars five cents ($5.05) an hour beginning
10 January 1, 1996.
11 (7) Five dollars sixty-five cents ($5.65) an hour beginning
12 January 1, 1997.
13 (8) Beginning January 1, 1998, and every January 1
14 thereafter, the minimum hourly wage shall be increased each year
15 to equal one-fortieth of fifty percent of the Statewide Average
16 Weekly Wage as determined and published by the Department of
17 Labor and Industry in the Pennsylvania Bulletin. If the average
18 weekly wage that is published in the Pennsylvania Bulletin shows
19 a decrease, there shall be no change in the minimum hourly wage.
20 (a.1) If the minimum wage set forth in the Fair Labor
21 Standards Act of 1938 (52 Stat. 1060, 29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq.)
22 is increased above [three dollars thirty-five cents ($3.35) an
23 hour] the amount calculated under subsection (a), the minimum
24 wage required under this section shall be increased by the same
25 amounts and effective the same date as the increases under the
26 Fair Labor Standards Act, and the provisions of subsection (a)
27 are suspended to the extent they differ from those set forth
28 under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
29 * * *
30 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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