Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §40.1-28.9 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§40.1-28.9. Definition of terms; wages of tipped employees.
A. As used in this article:
A.
"Employer" includes any individual, partnership, association,
corporation, business trust, or any person or groups of persons acting directly
or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee;
B. "Employee"
includes any individual employed by an employer, except the following:
1. Any person employed as a farm laborer or farm employee;
2. Any person employed in domestic service or in or about a private home or in an eleemosynary institution primarily supported by public funds;
3. Any person engaged in the activities of an educational, charitable, religious or nonprofit organization where the relationship of employer-employee does not, in fact, exist, or where the services rendered to such organizations are on a voluntary basis;
4. Newsboys, shoe-shine boys, caddies on golf courses, babysitters, ushers, doormen, concession attendants and cashiers in theaters;
5. Traveling salesmen or outside salesmen working on a commission basis; taxicab drivers and operators;
6. Any person under the age of 18 in the employ of his father, mother or legal guardian;
7. Any person confined in any penal or corrective institution
of the
State Commonwealth or any of its political
subdivisions or admitted to a state hospital or training center operated by the
Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services;
8. Any person employed by a boys'
and/or girls' summer camp for boys, girls, or both
boys and girls;
9. Any person under the age of 16, regardless of by whom employed;
10. Any person who normally works and is paid based on the amount of work done;
11. [Repealed.]
12. Any person whose employment is
covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, 29 U.S.C.
§203, as amended;
13. 12. Any person
whose earning capacity is impaired by physical deficiency, mental illness, or
intellectual disability;
14. 13. Students
participating in a bona fide educational program;
15. 14. Any person
employed by an employer who does not have four or more persons employed at any
one time; provided that husbands, wives, sons, daughters and parents of the
employer shall not be counted in determining the number of persons employed;
16. 15. Any person
who is less than 18 years of age and who is currently enrolled on a full-time
basis in any secondary school, institution of higher education or trade school,
provided the person is not employed more than 20 hours per week;
16A. 16. Any person
of any age who is currently enrolled on a full-time basis in any secondary
school, institution of higher education or trade school and is in a work-study
program or its equivalent at the institution at which he or she is enrolled as
a student; or
17. Any person who is less than 18 years of age and who is under the jurisdiction and direction of a juvenile and domestic relations district court.
C. "Employer" includes any individual,
partnership, association, corporation, business trust, or any person or groups of
persons acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in
relation to an employee.
"Wages" means legal tender of the United States or checks or drafts on banks negotiable into cash on demand or upon acceptance at full value; provided, wages may include the reasonable cost to the employer of furnishing meals and for lodging to an employee, if such board or lodging is customarily furnished by the employer, and used by the employee.
D. B. In
determining the cash wage of a tipped
employee, the amount paid such employee by his employer shall be deemed to be
increased on account of tips by an amount determined by the employer in accordance with the minimum
wage requirements of the federal Fair Labor Standards
Act of 1938, as amended,
except in the case of an employee who establishes by clear and convincing
evidence that the actual amount of tips received by him was less than the
amount determined by the employer. In such case, the amount paid such employee
by his employer shall be deemed to have been increased by such lesser amount. However:
1. From January 1, 2020, through December 31, 2020, a tipped employee shall receive a cash wage of not less than $3.50 per hour;
2. From January 1, 2021, through December 31, 2021, a tipped employee shall receive a cash wage of not less than $4.75 per hour;
3. From January 1, 2022, through December 31, 2022, a tipped employee shall receive a cash wage of not less than $6.00 per hour; and
4. Commencing January 1, 2023, the amount of tips received by an employee shall be excluded from any determination of the wage paid to the employee by his employer.