South Dakota Minimum Wage Changes: More of the Bottom Line

May 7th, 2007 Posted by Mark

But whatever happens with the Democrats and the Republicans in faraway Washington DC will greatly impact how you employers do things in South Dakota. Those of you liable for the Fair Labor Standards Act will obviously need to begin learning the new three part increase system that the federal minimum wage will experience in the next couple years, culminating in the final federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. And all employers in the state of South Dakota will be required to update their federal minimum wage labor law poster.

But those of you in South Dakota that are currently not liable to follow the Fair Labor Standards Act will be required to—what? And I think that is the most important issue with the effects of the federal minimum wage change to all employers in the state of South Dakota. What will they have to pay when the federal minimum wage increase goes into effect? Will they still be liable to pay the current South Dakota minimum wage of $5.15 per hour, or will the state experience some sort of law change that makes the state continue to follow whatever the federal minimum wage does? Or does the state of South Dakota already have some form of provision in its minimum wage labor law that dictates that the state will change its minimum wage to match any increase in the federal minimum wage?

These are all good and important questions, and I can hear you asking yourself: but isn’t that why I read this blog? To get answers to these question? And answers you shall have. Let me check with my sources and get back to you folks, pronto. In the meantime, South Dakota employers, keep your eyes peeled on Capitol Hill to see what the national politicians end up doing.

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