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Committee advances bill clarifying cannabis businesses cannot claim tip credit
Summary
The Labor and Public Employees Committee on a motion to send House Bill 6842 to the floor agreed to move forward with language that makes clear cannabis establishments may not claim a tip credit toward the state minimum wage.
The Labor and Public Employees Committee on a motion to send House Bill 6842 to the floor agreed to move forward with language that makes clear cannabis establishments may not claim a tip credit toward the state minimum wage.
The bill, LCO 6614, says the labor commissioner may not count tips as part of the minimum wage calculation for employees of cannabis establishments. The language also makes clear that any cannabis establishment that pays an employee less than the state minimum wage is violating state law and places the rule in the cannabis statutes rather than in the Department of Labor wage-and-hour statutes.
Committee members debated whether the measure changes existing policy or simply…
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