New York Laws
Article 19 - Minimum Wage Act
655 - Wage Board; Procedure; Report.

(b) In addition to recommendations for minimum wages, the wage board
may recommend such regulations as it deems appropriate to carry out the
purposes of this article and to safeguard minimum wages. Such
recommended regulations may include regulations defining the exclusions
from the term "employee" set forth in subdivision five of section six
hundred fifty-one. Such recommended regulations may also include, but
are not limited to, regulations governing piece rates, incentives, and
commissions in relation to time rates; overtime or part-time rates;
waiting time and call-in pay rates; wage rate provisions governing split
shift, excessive spread of hours and weekly guarantees; and allowances
for gratuities and, when furnished by the employer to his employees, for
meals, lodging, apparel and other such items, services and facilities.
(c) The wage board may also recommend, to the extent necessary in
order to prevent curtailment of opportunities for employment,
regulations for (1) the employment of learners and apprentices, under
special certificates issued by the commissioner, at such wages lower
than the minimum wage established by this article and subject to such
limitations as to time, number, proportion and length of service as
shall be prescribed in such regulation, (2) the employment of
individuals whose earning capacity is affected or impaired by youth or
age or by physical or mental deficiency or injury, under special
certificates issued by the commissioner, at such wages lower than the
minimum wage established by this article and for such period as shall be
prescribed in such regulation, (3) the establishment of a period not
extending beyond seventeen consecutive weeks during which a resort hotel
or camp may employ students under special certificates issued by the
commissioner, at such wages lower than the minimum wage established by
this article as shall be prescribed in such regulation, and (4) the
employment of residential employees in a non-profit making religious,
charitable or educational organization or in a non-profit making college
or university sorority or fraternity under special certificates issued
by the commissioner at such weekly wage as shall be prescribed in such
regulation.