ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Fifty-sixth Legislature

Second Regular Session

HB 2197: minimum wage; minor league baseball

Sponsor: Representative Biasiucci, LD 30

Committee on Commerce

Overview

An emergency measure that allows certain employers to designate fixed paydays for minor league baseball players. Exempts minor league baseball players from statutory minimum wage and recordkeeping requirements.

History

Title 23, Chapter 2, A.R.S., governs employment practices and working conditions, including requirements for payment of wages, minimum wages and employee benefits.

Pursuant to A.R.S. § 23-351, Arizona employers must designate at least two fixed paydays a month for payment of wages to their employees. However, employers who have a principal place of business located out-of-state and whose payroll system is centralized outside of Arizona may designate one or more fixed paydays a month for payment of wages to:

1) professional, administrative or executive employees or employees employed in the capacity of an outside salesman; and

2) employees employed in a supervisory capacity.

The ability for employers to designate at least one fixed payday a month for specified employees does not apply to employees whose salaries are subject to provisions of collective bargaining agreements.

Employers are required to post notices in the workplace informing employees of their rights relating to minimum wage and employee benefits. Additionally, employers must maintain payroll records showing the hours worked for each day and the wages and earned paid sick time paid to all employees for a period of four years (A.R.S. § 23-364).

Provisions

1. Permits employers with a payroll system centralized outside of Arizona to designate at least one fixed payday a month to employees who have a contract to play minor league baseball and who are compensated under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement. (Sec. 1)

2. Exempts employees who have a contract to play minor league baseball and who are compensated under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement from statutory minimum wage requirements or recordkeeping requirements concerning hours worked relating to minimum wage, subject to the Proposition 105 requirements. (Sec. 2, 3)

3. Contains an emergency clause. (Sec. 4)

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