Bill Text: NY S08436 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 8436 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

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) 2018-05-07 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S08436 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S08436-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8436
                    IN SENATE
                                       May 7, 2018
                                       ___________
        Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed 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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