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Show MINIMUM WAGE TAKES JUMP Business firms are reminded that minimum wages set by the Fair Labor Standards Act go up on Feb. 1. The minimum for most covered cov-ered workers advances to $1.60 an hour from $1.40. The remaining re-maining covered employees will be entitled to $1.15 an hour minimum, instead of the present pres-ent $1. Donald D. Drew, field office supervisor of the Salt Lake office of-fice of the U. S. Labor Department, De-partment, said, "Workers who will be due the $1.60 minimum are those engaged in employment employ-ment which was covered before the Act was amended in 1966. Included are employees individually indi-vidually engaged in interstate commerce, or employed in certain cer-tain large enterprises. They are also due time and one-half one-half their regular rate after 40 hours a week. "The $1.15 minimum will apply to workers made subject to the Act by the 1966 amendments. amend-ments. These include employes of large hotels, motels and restaurants; res-taurants; workers in laundries and dry cleaning establishments; establish-ments; employees of hospitals and nursing homes, whether public or private; employees of schools and institutions of higher education, whether public pub-lic or private; and more retail and service employees." Some covered workers are exempt from certain of the pay provisions, notably covered hotel, motel and restaurant employees em-ployees are exempt from overtime. over-time. Employees of a retail or service enterprise are exempt from both the minimum wage and overtime provisions if the enterprise grosses less than S500.000 a year. Mr. Drew said that questions about the act would be answered an-swered at the Salt Lake office, 3207 Federal Building, tele-phono tele-phono 524-5706. |