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PUBLIC LAW 89-684-OCT. 15, 1966

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Public Law 89-684 AN ACT

October 15, 1966

To amend the District of Columbia minimum wage law to provide broader coverage, improved standards of minimum wage and overtime compensation protection, and improved means of enforcement.

[H. R. 8126]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives United States of America in Congress assembled.

of the

AMENDMENT TO DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MINIMUM WAGE LAW

1. Title I of the Act of September 19, 1918 (D.C. Code, secs. 36-401—36-422), is amended to read as follows: SECTION

" TITLE I—MINIMUM W A G E S "FINDING

AND

DECLARATION

OF

POLICY

1. (a) The Congress hereby finds that there are persons employed in some occupations in the District of Columbia at wages insufficient to provide adequate maintenance and to protect health. Such employment impairs the health, efficiency, and well-being of the persons so employed, constitutes unfair competition against other employers and their employees, threatens the stability of industry, reduces the purchasing power of employees, and requires, in many instances, that their wages be supplemented by the payment of public moneys for relief or other public and private assistance. Employment of persons at these insufficient rates of pay threatens the health and well-being of the people of the District of Columbia and injures the overall economy. "(b) I t is hereby declared to be the policy of this Act to correct and as rapidly as practicable to eliminate the conditions referred to above. "SECTION

"DEFINITIONS

"SEC. 2. As used in this Act— "(1) The term 'Commissioners' means the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia or their designated agent or representative. "(2) The term 'wage' means compensation due to an employee by reason of his employment, payable in legal tender of the United States or checks on banks convertible into cash on demand at full face value, including such allowances as may be permitted by any order or regulation issued under section 3, 6, 7, or 8. "(3) The term 'employ' includes to suffer or permit to work. "(4) The term 'employer' includes any individual, partnership, association, corporation, business trust, or any person or group of persons, acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee, but shall not include the United States or the District of Columbia. "(5) The term 'employee' includes any individual employed by an employer, except that such term shall not include—" (A) any individual who, without payment.and without expectation of any gain, directly or indirectly, volunteers to engage in the activities of an educational, charitable, religious, or nonprofit organization; " (B) any lay member elected or appointed to office within the discipline of any religious organization and engaged in religious functions; or " (C) any individual employed in domestic service or otherwise employed, in or about the residence of the employer.

lumbiaMinimum' Wage Amendments ^"^^ °^ ^^^''• 40 Stat. 960; 55 Stat. 738.

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