Fair Labor Standards Amendments

Fair Labor Standards Amendments - Provides for an increase in the minimum wage to $2.30 a hour over a specified period for employees covered before 1966, nonagricultural employees covered before 1966, nonagricultural employees covered in 1966 and 1973, and agricultural emplyeees.

States that such increase shall not apply to employees in Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands, of the United States or of the government of the Virgin Islands; of a hotel, motel, or restaurant; or of any other retail or service establishment engaged in the preparation of food.

Establishes the mimimum wage rate for such employees as equal to that of employees in States, as prescribed under this Act.

Provides for the appointment of a special industry committee to recommend for employees in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, the highest minimum wage rates.

Includes Federal and State employees in the minimum wage coverage and defines such employees.

Establishes minimum wage rates for domestic service employees. Excludes from overtime rates specified tobacco employees. Exempts for two years, telegraph agency employees from the maximum hours provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Establishes overtime rate requirements for seafood canning and processing employees; nursing home employees; hotel, motel and restaurant; salesmen, partsmen, and mechanics; food service employees; bowling employees; substitute parents for institutionalized children; cottom ginning and sugar processing employees; and employees of conglomerates.

Establishes maximum hour requirements for seasonal industry employees, and local transit employees; and overtime rate requirements for local transit employees.

Exempts from overtime rate requirements motion picture theater employees and certain lumber and logging industry employees.

Establishes special minimum wage rates for full-time students and persons under 18. Provides that the Secretary shall by regulation prescribe standards and requirements to insure that this Act will not create a substantial probability of reducing the full-time employment opportunities of persons other than those to whom these minimum wage rates, authorized by this Act, apply.

Exempts specified agricultural workers from the child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Establishes a civil penalty for violation of the child labor provisions.

Requires the Secretary to conduct studies on the justification or lack thereof for each of the special overtime rate exemptions and the economic effects of the application of such exemptions to such employees, and to submit a report of his findings and recommendations to the Congress with respect to the studies conducted not later than January 1, 1976.

Provides that, except as otherwise specifically provided, the amendments made by this Act shall take effect on the first day of the second full month which begins after the date of the enactment of this Act.