Staring down proposals to raise the state's minimum hourly wage from $8 to $10.50 or $11, the Retailers Association of Massachusetts is targeting a state law that gives hourly retail workers overtime on Sundays, and angling for a lower teen minimum wage.
The overtime mandate — a political trade-off for the state to relax its "blue laws" in 1980 and let stores open on Sundays — is discriminatory, according to RAM president Jon Hurst.
"No other employer group has to pay that except for retailers," Hurst said. "We would say that a minimum wage increase is ill-timed given the economic pressures, but we understand that it's going to pass, so we're just trying to mitigate it."
Hurst hopes to get the law repealed or scaled back, for example, by exempting retailers from overtime for new employees once the minimum wage is raised.
"It was necessary in those days in order to get volunteers to work on Sundays," he said, noting that's not the case today.
RAM also will push anew for a teen wage that's lower than the minimum wage. "Most states allow a slightly lower minimum wage for teenagers," Hurst said. "We literally have 50 percent less teens employed versus 15 years ago in Massachusetts."
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