Archive for Business & Labor

by Senator Sharon Stewart-Peregoy (D-Crow Agency)

There are more than 9,300 working Montanans struggling to get by on minimum wage and tips. Last week, in the Montana Senate, we stood up for Montana’s working families and fought back an attempt to lower the minimum wage on tipped employees. Read More→

Senator Kim Gillan (D-Billings) presented Senate Bill 234, a bill to require group insurance policies to cover autism treatment, today in the Senate Business, Labor & Economic Affairs Committee. Read More→

The Montana Senate Tuesday voted against the “Tip Credit Bill.” Senate Bill 253 failed 2nd reading with a vote of 29 – 21, 6 Republicans and all 23 Senate Democrats joined together to kill the bill. Senator Steinbesser (R - Sidney) introduced the bill, which would allow for tips to count toward the minimum wage of an employee. The law as it stands now has a minimum wage employee earning $6.90 per hour excluding tips. Steinbesser’s bill proposed to amend the law and allow for an employer to use tips to offset increases to the minimum wage above $6.90/hr. The federal minimum wage is set to increase to $7.25/hr in July this would have cost each tip earner 35 cents/hr in tips. Read More→

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