Connecticut Mercantile and Retail Poster

DOL-78 (Rev. 4/23)

MANDATORY ORDERS 7A & 7B

This notice must be posted and maintained wherever persons covered by this order are employed.
Inquiries or complaints of violation of this order should be sent to
Wage and Workplace Standards Division, Labor Department, Wethersfield, CT 06109-1114

STATE OF CONNECTICUT
LABOR DEPARTMENT - WAGE AND WORKPLACE STANDARDS
MERCANTILE TRADE
Website: www.ct.gov/dol
Minimum Fair Wage Rates for Persons Employed in Mercantile Trade.
Sec. 31-62-D1. DEFINITIONS As used in
sections 31-62-D1 to 31-62-D11, inclusive:
(a) “Commissions” means earnings based on
sales. These earnings may be achieved through
the payment of a fixed sum per sale or by the
payment of a percentage on any or all sales
made by an individual or group of individuals.
(b) “Employee” means a person employed or
permitted to work in any occupation in the
mercantile trade.
(c) “Mercantile trade” means the trade of
wholesale or retail selling of commodities and
any operation supplemental or incidental thereto,
including, but not limited to, buying, delivery,
maintenance, office, stock and clerical work.
Repair and service employees may be excluded if
the major portion of their duties is unrelated to the
mercantile trade as herein defined.
(d) “Minor” means a person less than eighteen
years of age.
(e) “Working time” includes all time during which
an employee is required to be on duty or at
prescribed premises whether or not work is then
provided by the employer; or during which an
employee is permitted to work though required
not to do so.
Sec. 31-62-D2. THE FOLLOWING MINIMUM
WAGE IS ORDERED: Effective 7-1-2022, not
less than $14.00 per hour, and effective 6-12023, not less than fifteen dollars per hour. On 11-24, the minimum fair wage shall be adjusted by
the percentage change in the employment cost
index calculated by the United States
Department of Labor, over the twelve-month
period ending on June thirtieth of the preceding
year, rounded to the nearest whole cent.
(b) BEGINNERS. For the first 200 hours in the
trade not less than 85% of the minimum wage
and not less than the minimum wage thereafter.*
*This subsection is amended by P.A. 19-4, An
Act Increasing the Minimum Fair Wage. CGS
Sec. 31-58(i)(5). The rates for all persons under
the age of eighteen years, except emancipated
minors, shall be not less than eighty-five per cent
of the minimum fair wage for the first ninety days
of such employment, or ten dollars and ten cents
per hour, whichever is greater, and shall be equal
to the minimum fair wage thereafter, except in
institutional training programs specifically
exempted by the commissioner.
(c) OVERTIME. One and one-half times the
employee’s regular rate of pay after 40 hours a
week.
( d ) M I N I M U M D A I LY E A R N I N G S
GUARANTEED.
An employee, who by
request or permission of the employer, reports for
duty on any day whether or not assigned to actual
work shall be compensated for a minimum of four
hours earnings at his regular rate. In instances of
regularly scheduled employment of less than
four hours as mutually agreed in writing between
employer and employee, and approved by the
Labor Department, this provision may be waived
provided the minimum daily pay in every
instance shall be at least twice the applicable
minimum hourly rate.
Sec. 31-62-D3. PAYMENT OF WAGES. Each
employee shall be paid, weekly, wages not less
than the minimum provided in this order, and all
commissions as defined herein shall be settled at
least once monthly.
Sec. 31-62-D4. REGULAR HOURLY RATE. Each
employer shall establish a regular hourly rate for
employees covered by this order. When an
employee is paid commission in whole or in part
for his earnings, the regular hourly rate for the
purpose of computing
WETHERSFIELD, CONNECTICUT
PROMULGATED JANUARY 4, 2001

overtime shall be determined by dividing the
employee’s total earnings by the number of
hours in the usual work week as supported by
time records made in accordance with the
provisions of section 31-62-D8.
Sec. 31-62-D5. COMPUTATION OF TIME. All
time shall be reckoned to the nearest unit of
fifteen minutes.
Sec. 31-62-D6. BEGINNERS. *
*This section is amended by P.A. 19-4, An
Act Increasing the Minimum Fair Wage.
CGS Sec. 31-58(i)(5). The rates for all persons
under the age of eighteen years, except
emancipated minors, shall be not less than
eighty-five per cent of the minimum fair wage
for the first ninety days of such employment, or
ten dollars and ten cents per hour, whichever is
greater, and shall be equal to the minimum fair
wage thereafter, except in institutional training
programs specifically exempted by the
commissioner.

Sec. 31-62-D7. HANDICAPPED WORKERS.
Any employee whose earning capacity has
been impaired by physical or mental disability
may be paid less than the minimum wage,
provided specific permission in each case
shall be obtained by the employer from the Labor
Department in accordance with the provisions of
Section
31-67 of the general statutes.
Sec. 31-62-D8. RECORDS. The employer shall
keep available at the place of employment
for a period of three years accurate and
legible records in ink for each employee
as follows: (1) his name; (2) his address; (3)
his working certificates as proof of age if a
minor employee (sixteen to eighteen years);
(4) his occupation; (5) total wages paid him
each pay day period; (6) his daily and weekly
hours worked showing the beginning and
ending hours of each work period. Records of
daily and weekly hours need not be maintained
for employees who qualify for exemption of the
overtime requirements of this order, provided
the wages paid shall be at least the minimum
required in this order. With permission of the
Labor Commissioner or his authorized
representative, wage records may be kept at
designated places other than the place of
employment. Records of hours worked for
each employee for whom such records is
required shall be available at the place of
employment for inspection at all reasonable
times.
Se c .
31-62-D9.
STUDENTS.
Repealed.

C OOPER ATIVE

Sec. 31-62-D10. EMPLOYMENT UNDER
OTHER MINIMUM WAGE ORDERS OR FOR
WHICH NO WAGE ORDER HAS BEEN
PROMULGATED. The provisions of these
regulations shall apply to any worker
engaged in the mercantile trade as defined
herein for the entire work period, unless he
is engaged partly in an occupation covered
by another wage order or in an occupation for
which no wage order has been promulgated
and the time spent in each occupation is
segregated and recorded.
Sec. 31-62-D11. NO CHARGE FOR
UNIFORMS OR OTHER FACILITIES. The
cost of uniforms or other facilities required by
the employer as a condition of employment, and
the reasonable cost of their maintenance, may
not be charged to the employee if such expense
would result in the payment of a wage less than
the minimum prescribed in this order.

Sec. 31-69 PENALTY. (a) Any employer or
his agent, or the officer or agent of any
corporation, who discharges or in any other
manner discriminates against any employee
because such employee has served or is about
to serve on a wage board or has testified or is
about to testify before any wage board or in any
other investigation or proceeding under or related
to this part, or because such employer believes
that such employee may serve on any wage board
or may testify before any wage board or in any
investigation or proceeding under this part, shall
be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor
more than four hundred dollars.
(b) Any employer or the officer or agent of any
corporation who pays or agrees to pay to any
employee less than the rates applicable to such
employee under the provisions of this part or a
minimum fair wage order shall be: (1) fined not
less than four thousand dollars nor more than
ten thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than
five years or both for each offense if the total
amount of all unpaid wages owed to an employee
is more than two thousand dollars; (2) fined not
less than two thousand nor more than four
thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one
year or both for each offense if the total amount of
all unpaid wages owed to an employee is more
than one thousand dollars but not more than two
thousand dollars; (3) fined not less than one
thousand nor more than two thousand dollars or
imprisoned not more than six months or both for
each offense if the total amount of all unpaid wages
owed to an employee is more than five hundred but
not more than one thousand dollars; or (4) fined
not less than four hundred nor more than one
thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than three
months or both for each offense if the total amount
of all unpaid wages owed to an employee is five
hundred dollars or less.
(c) Any employer, his officer or agent, or the
officer or agent of any corporation, firm or
partnership, who fails to keep the records
required under this part or by regulation made
in accordance with this part or to furnish such
records to the commissioner or any authorized
representative of the commissioner, upon
request, or who refuses to admit the
commissioner or his authorized representative to
his place of employment or who hinders or delays
the commissioner or his authorized representative
in the performance of his duties in the enforcement
of this part shall be fined not less than fifty dollars
nor more than two hundred dollars, and each day
of such failure to keep the records required
under this part or to furnish the same to the
commissioner or any authorized representative
of the commissioner shall constitute a separate
offense, and each day of refusal to admit or of
hindering or delaying the commissioner or his
authorized representative shall constitute a
separate offense.
(d) Nothing in this part shall be deemed to
interfere with, impede or in any way diminish the
right of employees to bargain collectively with their
employers through representatives of their own
choosing in order to establish wages or conditions
of work in excess of the applicable minimum under
this part.

THOMAS WYDRA
DIRECTOR