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Can you summarize Tex. Lab. Chapter 62?
WAGES > MINIMUM WAGE
Short Summary
This legal document, found in the Texas Statutes under the Labor Code, falls under the chapter of ‘PROTECTION OF LABORERS’ and specifically pertains to regulations regarding minimum wage. The document provides definitions for various terms used in the chapter, such as ‘agriculture’, ‘commission’, ’employ’, ’employee’, and ’employer’. It defines ‘agriculture’ to include farming, cultivating the soil, dairying, producing and harvesting agricultural or horticultural commodities, raising livestock and poultry, and other related activities. The document also mentions the Texas Employment Commission as the governing body. It defines ’employ’ to include permitting to work, and ’employee’ to include any individual employed by an employer. The term ’employer’ is defined to include a person acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee. The term ‘person’ is defined to include various entities such as individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, and legal representatives. The document was amended in 2009. Overall, this document establishes the definitions and scope of application for minimum wage regulations in Texas. The provided legal document content pertains to the minimum wage regulations in Texas. It states that, except as provided by Section 62.057, employers in Texas are required to pay their employees the federal minimum wage as defined in the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. This minimum wage supersedes any wage established in an ordinance, order, or charter provision governing wages in private employment, except for wages under a public contract. However, this section does not apply to state or federal job training or workforce development programs. It also does not apply to minimum wages established by governmental entities for contracts or agreements with private entities. Private entities that enter into such contracts or agreements and agree to comply with the minimum wage established by the governmental entity are subject to the terms of that contract or agreement. The term ‘governmental entity’ includes municipalities, counties, special districts or authorities, junior college districts, or other political subdivisions of the state. The document also provides definitions for ’tipped employee’ and outlines the inclusion of reasonable costs for meals and lodging in wage calculations. Additionally, it states that employers may not be required to pay employees who live on the premises of a business and are subject to call for more hours than they actually work. The document also briefly mentions compensation for services rendered by patients or clients of the Department of State Health Services or a department facility, specifying that they may be compensated at a percentage of the base wage adopted under this section. However, this compensation does not create an employer-employee relationship between the department and the patient or client. No specific exemptions or penalties are mentioned in this document.
Whom does it apply to?
Employers and employees in Texas
What does it govern?
Minimum wage regulations in Texas
What are exemptions?
Individuals covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, members of religious orders, ordained or licensed ministers, priests, rabbis, sextons, or Christian Science readers performing services for a religious organization, individuals engaged in activities for religious, educational, charitable, or nonprofit organizations where the employer-employee relationship does not exist or services are rendered gratuitously, employees of the Boy Scouts of America, the Girl Scouts of America, or affiliated local organizations, employees of camps operated by religious, educational, charitable, or nonprofit organizations, spouses employed by nonprofit educational institutions to serve as parents of a child who is an orphan, has one deceased natural parent, or is enrolled and resides in residential facilities of the institution, individuals employed in bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacities, outside salespersons or collectors paid on commission, elected officials or members of a legislative body of a political subdivision, persons performing domestic services in or about a private home, persons living in or about a private home and providing personal care for a resident, individuals under 18 years of age who are not high school graduates or vocational training program graduates (except for those employed in agriculture and paid on a piece rate), individuals under 20 years of age who are regularly enrolled students in high school, college, university, or vocational training programs (except for those employed in agriculture and paid on a piece rate), individuals with disabilities who are not more than 21 years of age, clients of vocational rehabilitation, and participating in a cooperative school-work program, persons performing services while imprisoned in the institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice or confined in a local jail, and certain family members of the employer
What are the Penalties?
No penalties are mentioned in this provision
Jurisdiction
Texas