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Title
Repealing Section 3.45(8)(b) and amending Section 3.45(8)(d) of the Madison General Ordinances to modify the method for calculating allowance for board and lodging.
Body
The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:
1. Subdivision (b) entitled "Room and Meal Allowance" of Subsection (8) entitled "Minimum Wage Rates" of Section 3.45 entitled "Minimum Wage" of the Madison General Ordinances is hereby repealed.
2. Subdivision (d) entitled "Room and Meal Allowance" of Subsection (8) entitled "Minimum Wage Rates" of Section 3.45 entitled "Minimum Wage" of the Madison General Ordinances is hereby amended to read as follows:
"(d) Allowance for Board and Lodging. Where board or lodging or both are furnished by the employer in accordance with Wis. Admin. Code ยง DWD 272.04, and accepted and received by a particular employee, an allowance may be made not to exceed the following amounts:
1. Lodging.
a. All employees except opportunity employees $41.20 per week or $5.90 per day.
b. Opportunity employees $34.00 per week or $4.85 per day.
Room allowances shall be computed on the basis of 20% of the prescribed minimum rate for employees based on a 40 hour week, rounded off to the nearest 5 cents.
2. Meals.
a. All employees except opportunity employees $61.80 per week or $2.95 per meal.
b. Opportunity employees $51.00 per week or $2.45 per meal.
Meal allowance shall be computed on the basis of 30% of the prescribed minimum rate for employees based on a 40 hour week, rounded off to the nearest 5 cents."
EDITOR'S NOTE:
Section 3.45(8)(b) currently reads as follows:
" (b) Room and Meal Allowances.
1. Room allowances shall be computed on the basis of 20% of the prescribed minimum rate for employees based on a 40 hour week, rounded off to the nearest 5 cents.
2. Meal allowance shall be computed on the basis of 30% of the prescribed minimum rate for employees based on a ...
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