Bill Text: NJ A2879 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Exempts minimum wage requirements compensation paid to homemaker-home health aides.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-20 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Labor Committee [A2879 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2020-A2879-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman RONALD S. DANCER
District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)
SYNOPSIS
Exempts from minimum wage requirements compensation paid to homemaker-home health aides.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning compensation of homemaker-home health aides and amending P.L.1967, c.89.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 1 of P.L.1967, c.89 (C.34:11-56a4.1) is amended to read as follows:
1. a. The provisions of [the act] P.L.1966, c.113 (C.34:11-56a et seq.) to which [this act] P.L.1967, c.89 (C.34:11-56a4.1) is a supplement in respect to minimum wages and compensation for overtime work shall not be applicable during the months of June, July, August or September of the year to summer camps, conferences and retreats operated by any nonprofit or religious corporation or association.
b. The provisions of P.L.1966, c.113 (C.34:11-56a et seq.) in respect to minimum wages and compensation for overtime work shall not be applicable to wages and compensation paid to homemaker-home health aides as that term is defined in section 1 of P.L.1947, c.262 (C.45:11-23).
(cf: P.L.1968, c.58, s.1)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill exempts homemaker-home health aides from the requirement that they, as employees, be paid the minimum wage and overtime compensation under the "New Jersey State Wage and Hour Law," P.L.1966, c.113 (C.34:11-56a et seq.). Homemaker-home health aides receive meals and shelter in the household for which they provide services, which are considered a portion of their compensation.
