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Show Minimum Wage To Be Raised Employers are advised by the U.S. Department of Lab or that where workers currently curren-tly subject to a $2.00 federal minimum wage will be entitled en-titled to $2.30 beginning Jan. 1, 1977. Most workers covered by federal minimum wage laws are already entitled to the $2.30 rate, according to C. Lamar Johnson, assistant regional administrator for Wage and Hour in Denver. He explains that employees currently subject to $2.20 are whose who were brought under un-der the protection of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) in 1967 or later. These workers to be covered by the $2.30 rate on Jan. 1 include those in: -laundry and dry cleaning establishments; construction enterprises with a gross annual business volume of less than $350,000 (larger construction firms are already suject to the $2.30 minimum); private hospitals, nursing homes, preschools, schools and colleges. hotels, motels, restaurants, restauran-ts, and certain other enterprises enter-prises with an annual gross sales volume of at least $250,000. all branches of a chain store operation, if the enterprise enter-prise as a whole grosses at least $250,000 annually (ending (en-ding a current exemption for individual chain stores grossing less than $200,000); and household domestic workers. In addition, farmworkers covered by a current $2 minimum wage will be entitled en-titled to $2.20 an hour January 1 with a subsequent increase to $2.30 on Jan. 1, 1978. The FLSA, which sets minimum wage, overtime pay, child labor, and equal pay standards is administered ad-ministered and enforced by the Employment Standards Administration's Wage and Hour Division. Employers and workers in Montana, Utah, and Wyoming can obtain more information in-formation by contacting the Wage and Hour area office, Room 4311, Federal Building 125 South State Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84111, or telephone 801524-5706. |