HB564
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Amend KRS 337.010 to increase the applicable threshold of employees of retail stores and service industries from $95,000 to $500,000 average annual gross volume of sales for the employer; amend KRS 337.275 to incrementally raise minimum wage of hourly and tipped employees and require adherence to any future federal increase in excess of the new state wage rates; include anti-preemption language permitting local governments to establish minimum wage ordinances in excess of the state minimum wage.
Introduced: February 14, 2025
Last action: February 25, 2025
Plain-language summary
This bill would raise Kentucky's minimum wage in steps and expand which businesses must follow state wage rules by updating the sales threshold that determines which retail and service employers are covered. It would also allow cities and counties to set their own higher minimum wages if they choose. The bill applies new wage rules to tipped workers as well and ties future state rates to any federal increases that go higher. Who it may affect: hourly workers, tipped employees such as restaurant servers, retail and service industry employers, and local governments considering their own wage ordinances.
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