Vote to pass a bill that raises the adult minimum wage to $7.25 for standard employees.
Highlights:
- Raises minimum wages according to employment type [sec 10]:
- Employees generally to $7.25 per hour
- Tipped employees to $2.60 per hour
- Minor and Opportunity employees to $6.60 per hour
- Adult agricultural employees to $5.75 per hour
- Minor agricultural employees to $4.75 per hour
- Adult camp counselors, dependent on meals and lodging, to $301 per week.
- Minor camp counselors, dependent on meals and lodging, to $251 per week.
- Golf caddies to $11.70 for 18 holes and $6.60 for 9 holes.
- Exempts employees who perform less than 15 hours per week of casual employment at the employer's home [sec 10(8)].
- Allows the Wisconsin's Department of Workforce Development to revise the minimum wage to reflect change in the consumer price index [sec 10(9)].