Minimum wage; establish at $10.00 and set requirements for exemptions and overtime.

HB 898 establishes Mississippi's minimum wage at $10.00 per hour for most workers, while allowing tipped employees to be paid $3.62 per hour if their tips bring their total earnings to at least $10.00. It requires overtime pay at 1.5 times the regular rate for employees earning $455 or less per week and explicitly prohibits employers from denying overtime to manual laborers, police, firefighters, and other first responders. The bill also clarifies that non-management workers and those in specialized roles must receive overtime pay. This replaces Mississippi's current minimum wage with the new $10 rate and updates overtime eligibility rules.