Beckley Register Herald – Employers ready to budget for next year’s minimum wage increase may want to look at another, perhaps unintended, consequence of the law that will raise wages for approximately 100,000 state residents. Read
Because of a change in the State Code’s definitions, workers formerly exempt from overtime laws may now be eligible to earn time-and-a-half — including those with salaries of more than $100,000 a year.
House Bill 4283, which raised the minimum wage from $7.25 to $8 an hour as of Jan. 1, 2015, changed the definition of employer, striking language in State Code that said “if 80 percent of persons employed … are subject to any federal act relating to minimum wage, maximum hours and overtime compensation.”
