Bill Text: NY A08498 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring employers to pay holiday premium pay to certain employees on certain federal holidays including New Year's Day, Labor Day, Memorial Day and Independence Day.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to labor [A08498 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08498-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8498

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     August 7, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring employers to pay
          holiday premium pay to certain employees on certain federal holidays

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section  190  of the labor law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 10 to read as follows:
     3    10. "Holiday premium pay" means a rate of basic pay plus  premium  pay
     4  at  a  rate equal to one-half his or her rate of basic pay for non-over-
     5  time hours worked up to eight on certain federal holidays.
     6    § 2. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 191-d to read as
     7  follows:
     8    § 191-d. Holiday premium pay.  Every employer shall pay to each of its
     9  employees, except any person employed in a bona fide executive, adminis-
    10  trative, or professional capacity whose earnings are in excess  of  nine
    11  hundred  dollars  a week, holiday premium pay, as defined in subdivision
    12  ten of section one hundred ninety of  this  article,  on  the  following
    13  holidays:
    14    1. New Year's Day;
    15    2. Labor Day;
    16    3. Memorial Day; and
    17    4. Independence Day.
    18    § 3. Nothing in this act shall be deemed to diminish the rights, priv-
    19  ileges,  or  remedies  of  any  employee under any collective bargaining
    20  agreement or employment contract.
    21    § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    22  it shall have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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