Isolated or inadvertent improper deductions will not result in loss of the exemption if the employer reimburses the employee for the improper deductions. Non-exempt employees must be paid at least the federal minimum wage for their hours worked. SK\CR+Jb N Yes. Employers also are not allowed to require that meals be accepted as part of the worker's wages. State law does not require that brief rest periods, or coffee breaks, be provided to employees. If you are paid less than $455/week and are suddenly paid a large lump sum at one given point in time, then you are not part of this exemption. Due to such benefits qualifying as wages under Wisconsin's wage payment laws, an employer would likely be required to pay vacation leave to an employee upon separation from employment if the policy did not contain some sort of forfeiture provision. An update is not required, but it is strongly recommended to improve your browsing experience. After the first 90 days have passed (or when the employee turns 20, whichever comes first) the employee must be given a raise to the full minimum wage. The law applies to factories, mercantile (see definition of mercantile) or mechanical establish-ments, restaurants, hotels, motels, resorts, beauty parlors, retail and wholesale stores, laundries, express and transportation firms, telegraph offices and telephone exchanges. If work is not made available for an entire workweek, however, no salary needs to be paid. h W7(wiqQcu-Fk8Er)Q,gGLe.b,7~}RrwqwvV%X]Gc+"@w3|_zT The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and youth employment standards affecting employees in the private sector and in Federal, State, and local governments. Employers may use nondiscretionary bonuses and incentive payments (including commissions) paid on an annual or more frequent basis, to satisfy up to 10 percent of the standard salary level. /[M)KUihk65:)7f "jk;" !H( [ R Different rates and requirements apply to employers with fewer than six employees, employers in the agricultural industry, and those employing seasonal and tipped workers. The current minimum wage is $7.25/hour, and 30 times that is $217.50. The statute reads, in part: "103.455 Deductions for faulty workmanship, loss, theft or damage. Box 7946 DWD is an equal opportunity employer and service provider. For most aspects of the duties and discretion exemption tests, the state law is either the same as the federal law or is more beneficial and must be applied. 103.457; WI Admin Code 272.10. If you have a disability and need to access this information in an alternate format or need it translated to another language, please contact us in Madison at (608) 264-8752 or in Milwaukee at (414) 227-4081. If the employee does not receive payment after 6 days, the employee may file a claim with the department. . Unfortunatley, your browser is out of date and is not supported. American Sign Language (ASL), Nonexempt to Exempt 213; Public Law 101-583, 104 Stat. Exemptions from the overtime laws. Employees employed in agriculture including farming in all its branches, including, among other things, the cultivation & tillage of the soil, dairying, the production, cultivation, growing & harvesting of any agricultural or horticultural commodities, the raising of livestock, bees, furbearing animals, or poultry, & any practices performed by a farmer or on a farm as an incident to or in conjunction with such farming operations, including preparation for market, delivery to storage or to market or to carriers for transportation to market. [CDATA[/* >