Section 50-4-23 – Persons with a disability; minimum wage; director powers and duties.
A. The director of the labor and industrial division of the labor department, to the extent necessary in order to prevent curtailment of opportunities for employment, shall, by regulation, provide for the employment under special certificates of individuals, including individuals employed in agriculture, whose earning or productive capacity is impaired by physical or mental disability […]
Section 50-4-24 – Employers exempt from overtime provisions for certain employees.
A. An employer of workers engaged in the ginning of cotton for market, in a place of employment located within a county where cotton is grown in commercial quantities, is exempt from the overtime provisions of Subsection D of Section 50-4-22 NMSA 1978 if each employee is employed for a period of not more than […]
Section 50-4-25 – Posting of summary of the act.
Every employer subject to the Minimum Wage Act [50-4-19 to 5-4-30 NMSA 1978] shall keep a summary of it, furnished by the labor commissioner [director of the labor and industrial division] without charge, posted in a conspicuous place on or about the premises wherein any person subject to the Minimum Wage Act is employed, and […]
Section 50-4-26 – Enforcement; penalties; employees’ remedies.
A. An employer who violates any of the provisions of the Minimum Wage Act is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be sentenced pursuant to the provisions of Section 31-19-1 NMSA 1978. B. The director of the labor relations division of the workforce solutions department shall enforce and prosecute violations of the Minimum […]
Section 50-4-26.1 – Retaliation prohibited.
It is a violation of the Minimum Wage Act [50-4-19 to 5-4-30 NMSA 1978] for an employer or any other person to discharge, demote, deny promotion to or in any other way discriminate against a person in the terms or conditions of employment in retaliation for the person asserting a claim or right pursuant to […]
Section 50-4-27 – Authority of labor commissioner [director of the labor and industrial division] to promulgate rules; hearing on rules; notice; publication.
The state labor commissioner [director of the labor and industrial division] shall have the authority to promulgate and issue rules and regulations necessary to administer and accomplish the purposes of the Minimum Wage Act [50-4-19 to 50-4-30 NMSA 1978]. Such rules and regulations shall be adopted after notice and public hearing. A copy of the […]
Section 50-4-28 – Right of collective bargaining.
Nothing in this act 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 other conditions of work in excess of the applicable minimum under the provisions of this act. History: […]
Section 50-4-29 – Relation to other laws.
Any standards relating to minimum wage, maximum hour or other working conditions in effect at the date of the passage of this act by or under any other law of this state, which are more favorable to employees than those applicable to such employees under this act, shall not be deemed to be amended, rescinded […]
Section 50-4-30 – Daily maximum hours of employment; exceptions.
A. No employee other than a fireman, law enforcement officer or farm or ranch hand whose duties require them to work longer hours, or employees primarily in a stand-by position, shall be required to work for any employer within the state more than sixteen hours in any one day of twenty-four hours except in emergency […]
Section 50-4-31 – Minimum length of hoe handles.
A. An employer of agricultural laborers shall not require an employee to use a hoe that has a handle shorter than four feet while performing agricultural labor that includes weeding, thinning or hot-capping in a stooped, kneeling or squatting position for a commercial farming operation. B. An employer who violates Subsection A of this section […]