Bill > LB258

This bill amends the Wage and Hour Act to adjust minimum wage provisions, introducing a youth minimum wage and modifying the existing training wage. Specifically, it changes how the minimum wage is adjusted annually, moving from an increase tied to the cost of living (measured by the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers, or CPI-U) to a fixed annual increase of one and three-quarters percent starting in 2027. It also establishes a new youth minimum wage of thirteen dollars and fifty cents per hour for employees aged fourteen to fifteen who are not emancipated minors, with this youth wage increasing by one and one-half percent every five years starting in 2030. The bill also revises the training wage, which can be paid to employees younger than twenty (excluding seasonal, migrant, or emancipated minors) for up to 180 days, setting it at thirteen dollars and fifty cents per hour through 2026 and then increasing it by one and one-half percent annually thereafter, with safeguards to prevent employers from using the training wage to reduce hours or lay off existing employees.

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