Show minimum wage law order issued an order establishing minimum um wages and maximum maximum hours for women and minors in the retail stores of utah was issued monday da y by the state industrial commission and will become effective at 7 a m on june 3 1940 following closely the recommendations ions made to the commission by a special wage board which reported last fall fail the order provides for a zoning of the state according to population for the payment of minimum wages from 10 to 15 a week it also provides that throughout th the state estate eight hours shall constitute a standard day and from 40 to 48 hours a standard week in the fixing of minimum wages exceptions are made for apprentices learners and delivery boys under 18 years of age working under a permit issued by the board of education the order lists the required payment of minimum wages in in the various communities according to population placed in the 11 a week class are american fork bountiful cedar city lehi payson richfield smithfield spanish fork and springville Spring ville for all smaller communities a 10 w wage age scale applies following the wage scale it was stated that no provision of this order shall justify any employer in reducing a wage pa paid d by him which is in excess of the applicable minimum wage under the order part time employed emp loyes are to be paid for not less than four hours per day at the appropriate da daily uy rate in the exact proportion that the daily rate bears to the minimum weekly wage |