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Show Minimum Wage to Rise Regional Administrator of the Department's Employment Standards Administration (ESA) in Denver noted. The Wage and Hour Division, a part of ESA, is responsible for administration ad-ministration and en forcement of the FLSA which also sets overtime over-time pay and child labor standards in addition to the minimum wage rates said Loren Gilbert, Assistant Regional Administrator for the division. About 30,000 Utah workers will be entitled to a pay raise when the Federal minimum wage rises to $3.35 per hour Jan. 1, 1981, the U.S. Department of Labor pointed out recently. The Jan. 1 increase, from $3.10 to $3.35, was provided for in 1977 amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). "The minimum wage increase is a matter of equity for low wage workers and assures that they are not forced to bear a disproportionate dispropor-tionate share of the burden of inflation," Doyle Loveridge, |