PRINTER'S NO. 424
No. 369 Session of 2005
INTRODUCED BY TARTAGLIONE, MUSTO, O'PAKE, WOZNIAK, STOUT, COSTA,
LAVALLE, LOGAN, STACK, MELLOW, FUMO, FERLO, KASUNIC, KITCHEN,
C. WILLIAMS, HUGHES AND A. WILLIAMS, MARCH 16, 2005
REFERRED TO LABOR AND INDUSTRY, MARCH 16, 2005
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:
19 (1) Two dollars sixty-five cents ($2.65) an hour upon the
20 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 eighty-five cents ($5.85) an hour beginning
10 July 1, 2005, and before July 1, 2006; six dollars forty-five
11 cents ($6.45) an hour after June 30, 2006, and before July 1,
12 2007; seven dollars ($7.00) an hour after June 30, 2007, and
13 thereafter.
14 (a.1) If the minimum wage set forth in the Fair Labor
15 Standards Act of 1938 (52 Stat. 1060, 29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq.)
16 is increased above [three dollars thirty-five cents ($3.35) an
17 hour] the minimum wage required under this section, the minimum
18 wage required under this section shall be increased by the same
19 amounts and effective the same date as the increases under the
20 Fair Labor Standards Act, and the provisions of subsection (a)
21 are suspended to the extent they differ from those set forth
22 under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
23 * * *
24 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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