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Being as such—that Louisiana has no state minimum wage law—then employers are faced with a similar prospect as they faced back when we last talked about this topic. There is no need for a Louisiana minimum wage labor law poster, because of no laws on overtime, salaried employees, or the minimum wage. But Louisiana employers still do have to consider the issue of the federal minimum wage.

Or at least some Louisiana employers have to consider the federal minimum wage. As I have said before to you guys out there, the federal minimum wage does not apply to all employers. It only applies to those employers who are liable to follow the Fair Labor Standards Act, meaning certain large and interstate employers out there. These include, but are not limited to, employers who either make more than $500,000 a year in revenues, or that operate in and out of more than one state besides Louisiana.

The Fair Labor Standards Act also has power over certain groups of employers and businesses, such as schools and medical facility type employers, so many employers in Louisiana would end up paying the new federal minimum wage should the Congress pass such a law in the near term future.

It would be interesting to take a poll of employers in the state Louisiana who have Internet sites, because if these employers use those sites to make a sale in another state, no matter how small those employers might be, they would then technically be interstate employers and technically would be required to pay the federal minimum wage and follow other sections of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

All employers in Louisiana, whether they have a Web site or are large multistate entities, have to have a federal minimum wage labor law poster, however. So that would change too if the new federal minimum wage passes—I mean, the federal minimum wage poster would have to be changed.

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