2006 Ohio Revised Code - 4111.02. Minimum wage rates.

§ 4111.02. Minimum wage rates.
 

(A)  Every employer and employers with less than one hundred fifty thousand dollars gross annual sales shall pay each of the employer's employees at a wage rate of not less than the wage rate specified in the "Fair Labor Standards Act," 29 U.S.C. 206, as now or hereafter amended, beginning on the effective date of this amendment, except as otherwise provided in this section. 

(B)  Every employer shall pay each employee in agriculture at a wage rate not less than the wage rate described in division (A) of this section. This provision does not apply to any employee employed in agriculture if the employee: (1)(a) is employed as a hand harvest laborer and is paid on a piece rate basis in an operation which has been, and is customarily and generally recognized as having been, paid on a piece rate basis in the region of employment, (b) commutes daily from the employee's permanent residence to the farm on which the employee is so employed, and (c) has been employed in agriculture less than thirteen weeks during the preceding calendar year, or (2)(a) is sixteen years of age or under, is employed as a hand harvest laborer, and is paid on a piece rate basis in an operation which has been, and is customarily and generally recognized as having been paid on a piece rate basis in the region of employment, (b) is employed on the same farm as the employee's parent or person standing in the place of the employee's parent, and (c) is paid at the same piece rate as employees over age sixteen are paid on the same farm. Such employees shall be paid no less than two dollars and eighty cents per hour. 

(C)  For any employee engaged in an occupation in which the employee customarily and regularly receives tips from patrons or others, the employer shall pay the wage rate specified for tipped employees in the "Fair Labor Standards Act," 29 U.S.C. 203, as now or hereafter amended. 
 

HISTORY: 135 v H 201 (Eff 1-1-74); 136 v H 1050 (Eff 8-20-76); 143 v H 446 (Eff 9-25-90); 145 v S 134. Eff 6-20-94; 151 v S 7, § 1, eff. 6-30-06.
 

Not analogous to former RC § 4111.02 (GC § 154-45f; 115 v 503; Bureau of Code Revision, 10-1-53) repealed 135 v H 201, § 2, eff 1-1-74.

 

Effect of Amendments

151 v S 7, effective June 30, 2006, rewrote the section.