Amendment #386 to H3400

Minimum Wage for Teenagers

[Sponsors] Representative Winslow of Norfolk moves to amend the bill by inserting, after section XX, the following new section:

“SECTION XX.  Section 1 of Chapter 151, as appearing in the 2008 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding at the end of the first paragraph the following:

This section shall not apply to workers under the age of twenty who are seasonally employed for no more than 5 months in any consecutive twelve month period.  A wage of less than $7.00 for any such worker under the age of twenty shall conclusively be presumed to be oppressive and unreasonable, unless the commissioner has expressly approved or shall expressly approve the establishment and payment of a lesser wage under the provisions of sections seven and nine.”