Rep. Mark Cohen is sponsor of HB 257 and Rep. John Taylor authored the amendment to increase it to $7.15. The amendment to raise the increase to $7.15 passed 130-66. The bill will increase the minimum wage to $6.25 on July 1, 2006 and to $7.15 on July 1, 2007. A $5.15 training wage, for 60 days for workers under age 20 was also included.
The Senate is next. The next meeting of the Coalition in Lebanon is next Wed. April 12 at Trinity United Methodist Church at 7 PM to continue to pressure Sen. Brightbill to run the vote on minimum wage that he promised for January of this year. The next meeting of the Raise the Minimum Wage Coalition in Philadelphia is Thurs. April 13 at 9:30.
The Taylor amendment follows:
H0257B3290A07238 VDL:DHB 04/05/06 #90 A07238
AMENDMENTS TO HOUSE BILL NO.
257
Sponsor: REPRESENTATIVE J. TAYLOR
Printer's No. 3290
Amend Title, page 1, lines 1
through 8, by striking out all of said lines and inserting Amending the
act of January 17, 1968 (P.L.11, No.5), entitled "An act establishing a fixed
minimum wage and overtime rates for employes, with certain exceptions; providing
for minimum rates for learners and apprentices; creating a Minimum Wage Advisory
Board and defining its powers and duties; conferring powers and imposing duties
upon the Department of Labor and Industry; imposing duties on employers; and
providing penalties," further providing for minimum wage; and providing for
preemption.
Amend Bill, page 1, lines 11 through 15; page 2, lines 1
through 30; page 3, lines 1 through 23, by striking out all of said lines on
said pages and inserting Section 1. Section 4(a) and (a.1) of the act of
January 17, 1968 (P.L.11, No.5), known as The Minimum Wage Act of 1968, amended
or added December 15, 1988 (P.L.1232, No.150), are amended and the section is
amended by adding a subsection to read: Section 4. Minimum Wages.--Except as
may otherwise be provided under this act:
(a) Every employer shall pay to each of his employes wages for all hours worked at a rate of not less than:
- Two dollars sixty-five cents ($2.65) an hour upon the effective date of this amendment.
- Two dollars ninety cents ($2.90) an hour during the year beginning January 1, 1979.
- Three dollars ten cents ($3.10) an hour during the year beginning January 1, 1980.
- Three dollars thirty-five cents ($3.35) an hour after December 31, 1980.
- Three dollars seventy cents ($3.70) an hour beginning February 1, 1989[, and thereafter].
- Six dollars fifteen cents ($6.25) an hour beginning July 1, 2006.
- Seven dollars fifteen cents
($7.15) an hour beginning July 1, 2007.
(a.1) If the minimum wage set forth in the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (52 Stat. 1060, 29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq.) is increased above [three dollars thirty-five cents ($3.35) an hour] the minimum wage required under this section, the minimum wage required under this section shall be increased by the same amounts and effective the same date as the increases under the Fair Labor Standards Act, and the provisions of subsection (a) are suspended to the extent they differ from those set forth under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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(e) In lieu of the minimum wage prescribed in subsection (a) and notwithstanding subsections (b) and (d), an employer may, during the first sixty calendar days when an employe under the age of twenty years is initially employed, pay the employe training wages at a rate of not less than the minimum wage set forth in section 6(a) of the Fair Labor Standards Act (29 U.S.C.§ 206(a)). A person employed at the training wage under this subsection shall be informed of the amount of the training wage and the right to receive the full minimum wage, or a higher wage, upon completion of the training period. No employer may take any action to displace existing employes, including partial displacements such as reduction in the hours, wages or employment benefits of existing employes, for purposes of hiring individuals at the training wage authorized by this subsection.
Section 2. The act is amended by adding a section to read: Section 13.1. Preemption.--The regulation of minimum wages under this act is a matter of exclusive State control. Minimum wages may not be regulated by any ordinance, home rule charter provision, resolution, contract, rule or regulation of a political subdivision.
Section 3. All acts and parts of acts are repealed insofar as they are inconsistent with the addition of section 13.1 of the act.
Section 4. This act shall apply as follows:
- The addition of section 13.1 of the act shall not invalidate any ordinance, charter provision, resolution, rule or regulation in effect on the effective date of this section.
- The following provisions
shall apply to contracts entered into or renewed on or after the effective date
of this section:
(i) The addition of section 13.1 of the act.
(ii) Section 3 of this act.
Section 5. This act shall take effect immediately.
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