West Virginia Minimum Wage Changes

May 13th, 2007 Posted by Mark

There have been some calls to get rid of the West Virginia minimum wage in the past year, but other than that, the new law that was passed in the state last year is set to go into effect. Last March 2006, the West Virginia law makers in power voted to pass a new West Virginia minimum wage bill, and as its first change, the law marked June 2007 as the time when the West Virginia minimum wage would increase.

So West Virginia employers, now is the time to be preparing yourselves for the upswing from the current level of $5.15 per hour to the new upcoming West Virginia minimum wage of $5.85. According to the law passed last year, the next increase to the West Virginia minimum wage will occur in June of next year, when the minimum wage will reach $7.25 per hour.

The West Virginia minimum wage law, however, does not affect all employers in the state. In fact, only employers that have six or more workers on their books, as well as bring in more than $500,000 in revenues per year, are to be paying this new minimum. Also not included in the West Virginia minimum wage law are those employers who are considered to be participating in the so called interstate activity, whether that be transporting goods across state lines, selling across other states, sending employees into more than one state, or other forms of activity in states other than West Virginia.

The interesting thing is that such interstate employers—or at least those employees of theirs participating in the interstate activity—are covered under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, and thus at the moment, come June 1, would still be able to pay the current active federal minimum wage of $5.15 per hour.

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