Joint Standing Committee on Labor


LD 1893	    An Act to Conform the Maine Tip Credit to the Federal    POCKET VETO
	    Tip Credit  			

	    Sponsor(s)   	    Committee Report       Amendments Adopted
	    KERR      	       		OTP-AM          	
	    AMERO

	
Under current Maine law and federal law, the effective minimum wage for 
employees who earn tips is 50% of the minimum wage.  An employer is entitled 
to take a tip credit of up to 50% of the minimum wage to account for tips 
received by the employee.  Under a pending change in federal law, the minimum
wage will increase to $4.75 on October 1, 1996 and the effective minimum wage 
for employees who earn tips will be frozen at its current level of $2.13 per 
hour.  This bill proposed makingthe required wage for employees who earn tips 
under state law the same as it is under federal law.



Committee Amendment "A" (H-923) added a fiscal note to the bill.  

Senate Amendment "A" (S-601) removed the emergency preamble and the emergency 
clause from the bill.
	


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