SB295 Alabama 2014 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021

Senate Bill

Expired

Current Status

Regular Session 2014

Session

4

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Bobby D. Singleton Senator
Democrat
Co-Sponsors: Quinton Ross Rodger Smitherman Vivian Davis Figures
Session: Regular Session 2014
Title: Compensation, Alabama Minimum Wage Act, set state minimum wage for hourly and tipped employees, Commissioner of Labor to enforce, establish civil penalties
Description: Currently, Alabama does not have a state minimum wage law.
This bill establishes a state minimum wage for Alabama; provides for the enforcement of this act by the Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Labor; and also provides for civil penalties for violating the provisions of this act.
This bill would provide that tipped employees' wages may not fall below 30 percent of the minimum wage at any time.
The bill would provide for an increase commencing on January 1, 2020, and every three years thereafter based on the Consumer Price Index for July 1 of the year preceding the year of the increase.
The bill would require the State Finance Director to notify the Alabama Department of Labor in writing between October 1 and October 15 each year preceding a wage adjustment of the percentage to be used for the cost-of-living adjustment for the next three calendar years.
This bill would require the Alabama Department of Labor to post any change in the state minimum wage on its website which shall serve as notice to each employer of this state.
Subjects: Compensation

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Business and Labor