MT legislative records: on Jobs

Gary Perry: Ok to discount minimum wage for tipped workers

OnTheIssues analysis: The minimum wage was set at $6.15 an hour; this bill would raise the minimum wage to $6.90 an hour, excluding the value of tips received by the employee. That means the minimum wage would go up for non-tipped employees, but would go down for tipped employees (if their tips summed to more than the difference of $-/75 an hour).

Legislative Outcome:Sen. Perry voted YES, SB 253 Senate rejected 21-29-0 on Feb. 3

Ryan Zinke: Don't discount minimum wage for tips

• Remove the phrase: "excluding the value of tips received by the employee" from the existing law "the minimum hourly wage rate as provided under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938" and in existing law "excluding the value of tips received by the employee and the special provisions for a training."

  OnTheIssues analysis: The minimum wage was set at $6.15 an hour; this bill would raise the minimum wage to $6.90 an hour, excluding the value of tips received by the employee. That means the minimum wage would go up for non-tipped employees, but would go down for tipped employees (if their tips summed to more than the difference of $-/75 an hour).

  Legislative outcome: Ryan Zinke voted NAY, SB 253 Senate rejected 21-29-0 on Feb. 3

  Source: Montana legislative voting records: SB 253 Feb 3, 2009

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