Money Wages

Money Wages means the amount of money paid to a worker before any deductions for such items as (1) house rent, electricity, and water; (2) board and lodging; (3) purchases at the company store; (4) union dues; (5) fines; (6) employee payments into pension or benefit funds; (7) employees’ tax under Subchapter A of Chapter 9 of the Internal Revenue Code; (8) premiums on group insurance.

Money wages reported must include all payments for time worked and also such other payments as those for (1) time lost due to sickness or accidents, unless paid out of benefit funds or other special accounts; (2) paid vacations; (3) expense allowances which are not regularly and reasonably segregated; (4) dismissal wages which the employer is required by law or contract to make and which do not represent the worker’s interest in a pension or other special fund; (5) all TIP income received while performing services which constitute employment.