§ 50-4-1 NMSA 1978

Definitions

Known as the Minimum Wage Act

The act spans §§ 50–50 (38 sections).

Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Massachusetts v. Morash (1989)

Most recently applied in Aguilar v. Management & Training (February 2020)

Laws 1937, ch. 109, § 1; 1941 Comp., § 57-301; 1953 Comp., § 59-3-1; 2019, ch. 242, § 1.

How often courts cite this section

citing decisions per year

Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

Whenever used in Sections 50-4-1 through 50-4-12 NMSA 1978:

A. "employer" includes every person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, receiver or other officer of the court of this state and any agent or officer of any of the above-mentioned classes employing any person in this state, except employers of livestock and agricultural labor; and

B. "wages" means all amounts at which the labor or service rendered is recompensed, whether the amount is fixed or ascertained on a time, task, piece or commission basis or other method of calculating such amount.

Official source: NMOneSource (New Mexico Compilation Commission). Reproduced from public-domain New Mexico statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.