Where I work there are two sides to the store. My side and the Verizon side. The Verizon employees work on a wage ($4 per hour) + commissions.

Each month we have a store wide meeting. Each employee earns their commission wage while at the meeting. Is the store required to pay them state minimum wage while at the meetings since the store is closed and they are unable to earn commissions?

Only reason I ask is because most of the employees (not including myself - I live like 5 minutes away) live about an hour away and it actually costs them about $6 to attend the monthly meetings. One of my friends here that work on that side brought it up to me so I figured I would ask.