Gov't Not Affected by Minimum Wage Law

(Jefferson City, Missouri) Check this out:

A Cole County Circuit Court judge ruled this week that municipal and county governments aren't covered by the minimum wage law passed in 2006 by Missouri voters.

Judge Richard Callahan said the state law, which raised the state minimum wage to $6.50 last year and to $6.65 an hour as of Jan. 1, didn't specifically include governments in its language.

The law applies only to an "individual, partnership, association, corporation, business, business trust, legal representative, or any organized group of persons," Callahan said.

Therefore, the new regulation only applies to the private sector. Nobody should be surprised, though. It's no secret that Congress, for example, regularly passes laws that don't apply to Congress.