Source: http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb201%20ENR.htm&yr=2014&sesstype=2X&i=201
Timestamp: 2018-01-20 07:32:19
Document Index: 125363395

Matched Legal Cases: ['§21', '§21', '§21', '§21', '§21', '§21', '§21', '§21']

AN ACT to amend and reenact §21-5C-1, §21-5C-2 and §21-5C-4 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, as contained in chapter one hundred twenty-four, Acts of the Legislature, regular session, 2014, and to amend and reenact §21-5C-6 of said code, all relating to the application of minimum wage and maximum hour standards; modifying the definition of the term “employer”; clarifying the definition of the term “hours worked”; clarifying operative dates; requiring legislative rules; and authorizing promulgation of emergency rules.
That §21-5C-1, §21-5C-2 and §21-5C-4 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, as contained in chapter one hundred twenty-four, Acts of the Legislature, regular session, 2014, be amended and reenacted, and that §21-5C-6 of said code be amended and reenacted, all to read as follows:
(f) “Employee” includes any individual employed by an employer but shall not include: (1) Any individual employed by the United States; (2) any individual engaged in the activities of an educational, charitable, religious, fraternal or nonprofit organization where the employer-employee relationship does not in fact exist, or where the services rendered to such organizations are on a voluntary basis; (3) newsboys, shoeshine boys, golf caddies, pinboys and pin chasers in bowling lanes; (4) traveling salesmen and outside salesmen; (5) services performed by an individual in the employ of his or her parent, son, daughter or spouse; (6) any individual employed in a bona fide professional, executive or administrative capacity; (7) any person whose employment is for the purpose of on-the-job training; (8) any person having a physical or mental handicap so severe as to prevent his or her employment or employment training in any training or employment facility other than a nonprofit sheltered workshop; (9) any individual employed in a boys or girls summer camp; (10) any person sixty-two years of age or over who receives old-age or survivors benefits from the Social Security Administration; (11) any individual employed in agriculture as the word agriculture is defined in the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended; (12) any individual employed as a firefighter by the state or agency thereof; (13) ushers in theaters; (14) any individual employed on a part-time basis who is a student in any recognized school or college; (15) any individual employed by a local or interurban motorbus carrier; (16) so far as the maximum hours and overtime compensation provisions of this article are concerned, any salesman, parts man or mechanic primarily engaged in selling or servicing automobiles, trailers, trucks, farm implements, aircraft if employed by a nonmanufacturing establishment primarily engaged in the business of selling such vehicles to ultimate purchasers; (17) any employee with respect to whom the United States Department of Transportation has statutory authority to establish qualifications and maximum hours of service; (18) any person employed on a per diem basis by the Senate, the House of Delegates, or the Joint Committee on Government and Finance of the Legislature of West Virginia, other employees of the Senate or House of Delegates designated by the presiding officer thereof, and additional employees of the Joint Committee on Government and Finance designated by such joint committee; or (19) any person employed as a seasonal employee of a commercial whitewater outfitter where the seasonal employee works less than seven months in any one calendar year and, in such case, only for the limited purpose of exempting the seasonal employee from the maximum wage provisions of section three of this article.
(g) “Workweek” means a regularly recurring period of one hundred sixty-eight hours in the form of seven consecutive twenty-four hour periods, need not coincide with the calendar week, and may begin any day of the calendar week and any hour of the day.