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Oklahoma Statutes - Title 40. Labor Page 267 power, declares that inadequate wages and insanitary conditions of labor exert such pernicious effect. Laws 1965, c. 427, § 1, emerg. eff. July 8, 1965.
§40-197.2. Minimum wages established. It shall be unlawful to employ workers in any industry or occupation within the State of Oklahoma under conditions of labor detrimental to their health or morals and it shall be unlawful to employ workers in any industry within the State of Oklahoma at wages which are not adequate for their maintenance. Except as otherwise provided in the Oklahoma Minimum Wage Act, no employer within the State of Oklahoma shall pay any employee a wage of less than the current federal minimum wage for all hours worked. Amended by Laws 1983, c. 60, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1983.
§40-197.3. Wage and Hour Commission - Membership - Tenure - Compensation - Chairman. A. The Wage and Hour Commission is hereby terminated and all powers and duties of such Commission are transferred to the Commissioner of Labor. All personnel, funds, financial obligations and encumbrances, records, equipment, furniture, fixtures, files and supplies under the control of the Wage and Hour Commission are transferred to the Commissioner of Labor as of the effective date of this act. B. The Commissioner of Labor shall establish, pursuant to this act, such standards of wages and conditions of labor for employees within the State of Oklahoma as shall be reasonable and not detrimental to health and morals. Laws 1965, c. 427, § 3, emerg. eff. July 8, 1965; Laws 1978, c. 47, § 1, eff. July 1, 1978.
§40-197.4. Definitions. As used in this act: (a) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Labor; (b) "Wage" means compensation due to an employee by reason of his employment, payable in legal tender of the United States or checks on banks convertible into cash on demand at full face value, subject to such deductions, charges or allowances as may be permitted by law; (c) "Employ" includes to suffer or to permit to work; (d) "Employer" means any individual, partnership, association, corporation, business trust, or any person or group of persons, hiring more than ten full-time employees or equivalent at any one location or place of business; provided, however, if an employer has less than ten full-time employees or equivalent at any one location or place of business but does a gross business of more than One