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The Labor Standards Bureau administers and enforces the 1979 North Carolina Wage and Hour Act, the Retaliatory Employment Discrimination Act and the Controlled Substance Examination Regulation Act. The State's Wage and Hour Act consolidates four previously separate state laws covering minimum wage, maximum hours, wage payment and child labor. Minimum wage, overtime and youth employment provisions generally apply to all North Carolina businesses which are not subject to the U.S. Fair Labor Standards Act. Wage payment provisions, which include the payment of promised wages, vacation, sick pay, or other benefits, cover all employees in North Carolina except those employed in federal, state, and local government. Since 1996, the state minimum wage tracks changes in the federal minimum wage.