Revision: Jan. 21, 2010, midnight
HB 384 – AS INTRODUCED
2005 SESSION
06/09
HOUSE BILL 384
AN ACT prohibiting mandatory overtime.
COMMITTEE: Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
This bill prohibits employers who employ more than 25 people from requiring overtime as a condition of employment.
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05-0432
06/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Five
AN ACT prohibiting mandatory overtime.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; Overtime. Amend RSA 275 by inserting after section 275:30-a the following new section:
275:30-b Overtime. An employer who employs more than 25 people shall not, in the absence of a contract or collective bargaining agreement to the contrary:
I. Require overtime work as a condition of employment.
II. Make an employee’s participation in overtime work a basis for job performance evaluation.
III. Ask an employee to work overtime without giving the employee written notice 72 hours in advance of the overtime work.
IV. Penalize an employee in any way for declining to work overtime hours.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2006.