NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 802

HOUSE BILL 154

 

 

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE MINIMUM WAGE TO ONE DOLLAR AND EIGHTY CENTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 95-87, as the same appears in the 1971 Cumulative Supplement of Volume 2C of the General Statutes is hereby amended and rewritten as follows:

"§ 95-87.  Minimum wages. — Every employer shall pay to each of his employees wages at a rate not less than one dollar and eighty cents ($1.80) per hour. This section shall not apply to part-time employees who work 16 hours or less per week if the establishment where such part-time employees are employed has three or less full-time employees at any one time."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective September 2, 1973.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of May, 1973.