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Senate adopts amendment to minimum-wage bill to carve out seasonal-amusement exception
Summary
The Utah Senate adopted a floor amendment to the minimum-wage bill that lets certified seasonal amusement employers pay seasonal hourly workers less than the statutory minimum if end-of-season compensation brings average pay up to the minimum; the Industrial Commission retains supervisory authority. The amendment passed on a recorded roll call.
Senators on the floor adopted an amendment to the chamber’s minimum-wage measure that creates a narrowly tailored exception for certain seasonal amusement employers.
Sponsor Senator Black said the change was negotiated with Lagoon (an amusement-park operator) and the Industrial Commission to address a fiscal note and operational concerns. Under the adopted language, a seasonal hourly employee at a seasonal amusement establishment that operates fewer than seven months per year and whose receipts for six months do not exceed…
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