Rhode Island Minimum Wage Changes (cont.)

April 29th, 2007 Posted by Mark

Another exception to the rule is if your worker is age 14 or 15, and if they do not work for you for more than 24 hours in a week. Then you can pay them 75 percent of the regular Rhode Island minimum wage. Do the math, and that comes to $5.55 per hour.

Then there are exceptions of the Rhode Island minimum wage rule that allow employers to pay their employees the federal minimum wage, or whatever else they are legally allowed to pay below the regular Rhode Island minimum wage rate. These workers include those in the domestic service business that work in a private home.

Any worker involved in voluntary service or working for the federal government, or if they work at a charity of religious, non profit, or educational nature. That makes sense, by the way, since the very definition of volunteer means that you do not get paid at all. Also on this list of flat exceptions to the Rhode Island minimum wage rule are newspaper delivery people, golf caddies, shoe shine men, theater ushers, and outside sales men and women.

The law also makes exceptions for service employees at resort type places, that are open only in the summer or the winter months (depending on whether they are water attractions or skiing attractions). The rule is that the establishment can be open no more than six months out of the year. If so, they do not have to pay their wait staff the full minimum wage.

All of these exceptions, as far as I know, were there in the former Rhode Island minimum wage law, before all of the changes this past January, so the purpose here is to show that despite the change to the overall Rhode Island minimum wage rate, many things have still stayed the same in the state.

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