Budget Amendment ID: FY2012-S3-260

ECO 260

An Amendment Relative to Promoting Teen Summer Jobs

Messrs. Knapik, Tarr and Ross moved that the proposed new text be amended by inserting, after Section XXX, the following new Section:-

SECTION 1. 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 $6.00 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.