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Assembly Bill A3514

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring businesses to pay holiday premium pay on certain federal holidays

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2017-A3514 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §190, add §191-d, Lab L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A9488
2019-2020: A8498
2021-2022: A8479

2017-A3514 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to requiring employers to pay holiday premium pay to certain employees on certain federal holidays.

2017-A3514 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3514
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 27, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. SEPULVEDA, MOSLEY, LAVINE, RIVERA, BLAKE -- 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:
 
   Section  1.  Section  190  of the labor law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 10 to read as follows:
   10. "HOLIDAY PREMIUM PAY" MEANS A RATE OF BASIC PAY PLUS  PREMIUM  PAY
 AT  A  RATE EQUAL TO ONE-HALF HIS OR HER RATE OF BASIC PAY FOR NON-OVER-
 TIME HOURS WORKED UP TO EIGHT ON CERTAIN FEDERAL HOLIDAYS.
   § 2. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 191-d to read as
 follows:
   § 191-D. HOLIDAY PREMIUM PAY.  EVERY EMPLOYER SHALL PAY TO EACH OF ITS
 EMPLOYEES, EXCEPT ANY PERSON EMPLOYED IN A BONA FIDE EXECUTIVE, ADMINIS-
 TRATIVE, OR PROFESSIONAL CAPACITY WHOSE EARNINGS ARE IN EXCESS  OF  NINE
 HUNDRED  DOLLARS  A WEEK, HOLIDAY PREMIUM PAY, AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION
 TEN OF SECTION ONE HUNDRED NINETY OF  THIS  ARTICLE,  ON  THE  FOLLOWING
 HOLIDAYS:
   1. NEW YEAR'S DAY;
   2. LABOR DAY;
   3. MEMORIAL DAY; AND
   4. INDEPENDENCE DAY.
   § 3. Nothing in this act shall be deemed to diminish the rights, priv-
 ileges,  or  remedies  of  any  employee under any collective bargaining
 agreement or employment contract.
   § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08069-01-7

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