Legal Opinion
Director, Labor & Industrial Division, New Mexico Department of Labor v. Echostar Communications Corp.
New Mexico Court of Appeals
Decided February 28, 2006No. 25,777PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
PICKARD, Judge.
{1} The Minimum Wage Act, NMSA 1978, §§ 50-4-19 to -30 (1955, as amended through 2005) (the Act), establishes a floor below which employers cannot pay employees wages and also requires the payment of time and a half for work in excess of a forty-hour workweek. See especially § 50-4-22(A) (providing generally for a minimum wage of $5.15 per hour); § 50-4-22(C) (providing that employees “shall not be required to work more than forty hours in any week of seven days, unless the employee is paid one and one-half times the employee’s regular hourly rate of pay for all hours…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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- Tidewater Marine Western, Inc. v. BradshawCalifornia Supreme Court · 1996
- State v. RiveraNew Mexico Supreme Court · 2003
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3Cited by20 opinions
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- Corman v. JWS of N.M., Inc.District Court, D. New Mexico · 2018
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