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                         SENATE BILL 5812

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State of Washington      57th Legislature     2001 Regular Session

By Senators Hargrove and Hochstatter

Read first time 02/05/2001.  Referred to Committee on Labor, Commerce & Financial Institutions.

Allowing food service industry trainees to be employed at less than minimum wage.

    AN ACT Relating to the employment of food service industry trainees at less than minimum wage; and amending RCW 49.46.060.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

    Sec. 1.  RCW 49.46.060 and 1959 c 294 s 6 are each amended to read as follows:

    The director, to the extent necessary in order to prevent curtailment of opportunities for employment, shall by regulations provide for:  (1) The employment of learners, of apprentices, and of messengers employed primarily in delivering letters and messages, under special certificates issued pursuant to regulations of the director, at such wages lower than the minimum wage applicable under RCW 49.46.020 and subject to such limitations as to time, number, proportion, and length of service as the director shall prescribe((, and)); (2) the employment of trainees who are under the age of eighteen in the food service industry under special certificates issued by the director at wages lower than the minimum wage applicable under RCW 49.46.020 and for a period to be fixed by the certificate; and (3) the employment of individuals whose earning capacity is impaired by age or physical or mental deficiency or injury, under special certificates issued by the director, at such wages lower than the minimum wage applicable under RCW 49.46.020 and for such period as shall be fixed in such certificates.

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