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The bill also allowed employers to pay new employees at least 85 percent of the minimum wage during the first sixty days of employment of a newly hired employee with no previous employment. [53] The bill also increased the exemption from minimum wage law for small businesses from $362,500 to $500,000 of annual sales. [54]
Some types of labor are exempt: Employers may pay tipped labor a minimum of $2.13 per hour, as long as the hourly wage plus tip income equals at least the minimum wage. Persons under the age of 20 may be paid $4.25 an hour for the first 90 calendar days of employment (sometimes known as a youth, teen, or training wage) unless a higher state ...
“I guess if you’re in the bread-making business, there’s a lot of dough to go around,” one Republican lawmaker said.
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Under the DOL's current interpretation, the companionship exemption applies to most home care workers (also known as personal care assistants), allowing their employers—unless they are in a state with regulations superseding those at the federal level [2] —to pay below minimum wage and avoid overtime compensation.
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The federal minimum wage applies in states with no state minimum wage or a minimum wage lower than the federal rate (column titled "No state MW or state MW is lower than $7.25."). Some of the state rates below are higher than the rate on the main table above. That is because the main table does not use the rate for cities or regions.
The new minimum wage requirement does not take effect until April, so it is difficult to say which restaurants will ultimately be exempt. It applies to companies with at least 60 locations nationwide.