Sec. 23.10.110. Remedies of employee; attorney fees; offers of judgment; settlement; waiver.
(a) An employer who violates a provision of AS 23.10.060 or 23.10.065 is liable to an employee affected in the amount of unpaid minimum wages, or unpaid overtime compensation, as the case may be, and, except as provided in (d) of this section, in an additional equal amount as liquidated damages. (b) An action to […]
Sec. 23.10.115. Enforcement by injunction.
If it appears to the commissioner that an employer is engaged in an act or practice that violates or will violate a provision of AS 23.10.050 – 23.10.150 or of a regulation adopted under these sections, the commissioner may bring an action in a competent court to enjoin the act or practice, and to enforce […]
Sec. 23.10.120. Enforcement of subpoenas.
If a person fails to comply with a subpoena issued under AS 23.10.080, or if a witness refuses to produce evidence or to testify to a matter regarding which the witness may be lawfully interrogated, a competent court shall, upon application of the commissioner or an authorized representative, compel obedience by proceedings for contempt, as […]
Sec. 23.10.050. Public policy.
It is the public policy of the state to (1) establish minimum wage and overtime compensation standards for workers at levels consistent with their health, efficiency, and general well-being, and (2) safeguard existing minimum wage and overtime compensation standards that are adequate to maintain the health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers against the unfair […]
Sec. 23.10.055. Exemptions; compensation of executives, administrators, and professionals.
(a) The provisions of AS 23.10.050 – 23.10.150 do not apply to (1) an individual employed in agriculture, which includes farming in all its branches and, among other things, includes the cultivation and tillage of the soil, dairying, the production, cultivation, growing, and harvesting of any agricultural or horticultural commodities, the raising of livestock, bees, […]
Sec. 23.10.060. Payment for overtime.
(a) An employer who employs employees engaged in commerce or other business, or in the production of goods or materials in the state, may not employ an employee for a workweek longer than 40 hours or for more than eight hours a day. (b) If an employer finds it necessary to employ an employee for […]
Sec. 23.10.065. Minimum wages.
(a) Except as otherwise provided for in law, an employer shall pay to each employee a minimum wage, as established herein, for hours worked in a pay period, whether the work is measured by time, piece, commission or otherwise. An employer may not apply tips or gratuities bestowed upon employees as a credit toward payment […]
Sec. 23.10.070. Exemptions from minimum wage.
To the extent necessary to prevent curtailment of opportunities of employment, the commissioner may by regulations or orders provide for the employment at wages lower than the minimum wage prescribed in AS 23.10.050 – 23.10.150 of (1) an apprentice at the wages that are approved by the commissioner; (2) a learner at the wages and […]
Sec. 23.10.071. Wages for work therapy.
(a) For work therapy, as defined in AS 47.37.270, a participant in a residential drug abuse or alcoholism treatment program designed to extend more than 120 days may be paid less than the minimum wage prescribed in AS 23.10.050 – 23.10.150 if the rate has been approved by the commissioner under this section and is […]
Sec. 23.10.075. Labor standards and safety division.
There is established in the department the division of labor standards and safety. The director of the division is responsible to the commissioner. The director shall administer AS 18.60.010 – 18.60.105 and AS 23.10.050 – 23.10.150.