PRINTER'S NO. 4375
No. 2843 Session of 2006
INTRODUCED BY COHEN, BELFANTI, DeWEESE, VEON, BEBKO-JONES,
BISHOP, BLACKWELL, BUXTON, CALTAGIRONE, CASORIO, CORRIGAN,
COSTA, CRUZ, DALEY, DeLUCA, DERMODY, DONATUCCI, EACHUS,
FABRIZIO, FRANKEL, FREEMAN, GEORGE, GERGELY, GOODMAN,
GRUCELA, JAMES, JOSEPHS, LEACH, LEDERER, MANDERINO, McGEEHAN,
OLIVER, PETRONE, STABACK, READSHAW, SIPTROTH, SOLOBAY,
STURLA, TANGRETTI, WALKO AND YOUNGBLOOD, JUNE 27, 2006
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LABOR RELATIONS, JUNE 27, 2006
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 minimum wage.
9 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
10 hereby enacts as follows:
11 Section 1. Section 4(a) and (a.1) of the act of January 17,
12 1968 (P.L.11, No.5), known as The Minimum Wage Act of 1968,
13 amended or added December 15, 1988 (P.L.1232, No.150), are
14 amended to read:
15 Section 4. Minimum Wages.--Except as may otherwise be
16 provided under this act:
17 (a) Every employer shall pay to each of his employes wages
18 for all hours worked at a rate of not less than:
1 (1) Two dollars sixty-five cents ($2.65) an hour upon the
2 effective date of this amendment.
3 (2) Two dollars ninety cents ($2.90) an hour during the year
4 beginning January 1, 1979.
5 (3) Three dollars ten cents ($3.10) an hour during the year
6 beginning January 1, 1980.
7 (4) Three dollars thirty-five cents ($3.35) an hour after
8 December 31, 1980.
9 (5) Three dollars seventy cents ($3.70) an hour beginning
10 February 1, 1989[, and thereafter].
11 (6) Six dollars twenty-five cents ($6.25) an hour beginning
12 thirty (30) days after the effective date of this paragraph.
13 (7) Seven dollars and fifteen cents ($7.15) an hour
14 beginning on January 1, 2007.
15 (8) Eight dollars ($8.00) an hour beginning January 1, 2008.
16 (9) Beginning January 1, 2009, an on each succeeding January
17 1 thereafter, the minimum wage shall be set at the previous
18 year's annual Federal poverty guideline for a family of three as
19 set by the United States Department of Health and Human Services
20 divided by 2080 representing fifty-two weeks times forty hours
21 per week) rounded up to the nearest whole cent. The secretary
22 shall calculate the new minimum wage in September of each year
23 and cause notice of the minimum wage to be placed in the
24 Pennsylvania Bulletin.
25 (a.1) If the minimum wage set forth in the Fair Labor
26 Standards Act of 1938 (52 Stat. 1060, 29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq.)
27 is increased above [three dollars thirty-five cents ($3.35) an
28 hour] the minimum wage required under this section, the minimum
29 wage required under this section shall be increased by the same
30 amounts and effective the same date as the increases under the
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1 Fair Labor Standards Act, and the provisions of subsection (a)
2 are suspended to the extent they differ from those set forth
3 under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
4 * * *
5 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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