| Chapter 252 |
| 2024 -- S 2021 Enacted 06/24/2024 |
| A N A C T |
| RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES |
Introduced By: Senators Euer, Lawson, F. Lombardi, DiMario, Bissaillon, Acosta, Cano, and Kallman |
| Date Introduced: January 10, 2024 |
| It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: |
| SECTION 1. Section 28-12-2 of the General Laws in Chapter 28-12 entitled "Minimum |
| Wages" is hereby amended to read as follows: |
| 28-12-2. Definitions. |
| As used in this chapter: |
| (1) “Advisory board” means a board created as provided in § 28-12-6. |
| (2) “Commissioner” means the minimum-wage commissioner appointed by the director of |
| labor and training as chief of the division of labor standards. |
| (3) “Director” means the director of labor and training, or his or her the director’s duly |
| authorized representative. |
| (4) “Employ” means to suffer or to permit to work. |
| (5)(i) “Employee” includes any individual suffered or permitted to work by an employer. |
| (ii) “Employee” shall not include: |
| (A) Any individual employed in domestic service or in or about a private home; |
| (B) Any individual employed by the United States; |
| (C) Any individual engaged in the activities of an educational, charitable, religious, or |
| nonprofit organization where the employer-employee relationship does not, in fact, exist, or where |
| the services rendered to the organizations are on a voluntary basis; |
| (D) Newspaper deliverers on home delivery, shoe shiners in shoe shine establishments, |
| caddies on golf courses, pin persons in bowling alleys, ushers in theatres; |
| (E) Traveling salespersons or outside salespersons; |
| (F) Service performed by an individual in the employ of his or her the individual’s son, |
| daughter, or spouse and service performed by a child under the age of twenty-one (21) in the employ |
| of his or her the child’s father or mother; |
| (G) Any individual employed between May 1 and October 1 in a resort establishment that |
| regularly serves meals to the general public and that is open for business not more than six (6) |
| months a year; |
| (H) Any individual employed by an organized camp that does not operate for more than |
| seven (7) months in any calendar year. However, this exemption does not apply to individuals |
| employed by the camp on an annual, full-time basis. “Organized camp” means any camp, except a |
| trailer camp, having a structured program including, but not limited to, recreation, education, and |
| religious, or any combination of these. |
| (6) “Employer” includes any individual, partnership, association, corporation, business |
| trust, or any person, or group of persons, acting directly, or indirectly, in the interest of an employer, |
| in relation to an employee. |
| (7) “Occupation” means any occupation, service, trade, business, industry, or branch or |
| group of industries or employment or class of employment in which individuals are gainfully |
| employed. |
| (8) “Wage” means compensation due to an employee by reason of his or her the |
| employee’s employment. |
| SECTION 32. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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