Sec.31-62-D6. Beginners

Beginners may be employed at a rate not less than eighty-five percent of the minimum fair wage established by subsection (j) of section 31-58 of the Connecticut General Statutes per hour for the first two hundred hours in the mercantile trade and not less than the minimum fair wage established by subsection (j) of section 31-58 of the Connecticut General Statutes per hour thereafter, provided the number of beginners over the age of eighteen does not exceed five per cent of the persons regularly employed in the establishment. Any employee who has completed a two-hundred-hour learning period in the mercantile trade may not be employed to work at a learner's rate.

(Effective August 15, 1972; Amended January 4, 2001)