Bill Text - HB1201 (2018)

Relative to an employee's earned but unused vacation time.


Revision: Nov. 7, 2017, 1:22 p.m.

HB 1201 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2018 SESSION

18-2502

04/06

 

HOUSE BILL HB 1201

 

AN ACT relative to an employee's earned but unused vacation time.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Renzullo, Hills. 37; Rep. Cahill, Rock. 17

 

COMMITTEE: Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires an employer to pay its employees for earned but unused vacation time.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

18-2502

04/06

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eighteen

 

AN ACT relative to an employee's earned but unused vacation time.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  New Section; Day's Work; Days of Rest; Vacation Time.  Amend RSA 275 by inserting after section 35 the following new section:

275:35-a  Vacation Time.  An employer which offers paid vacation time to its employees shall, no later than 30 days after the end of the period in which such vacation time is earned, pay its employees for earned but unused vacation time.  An employer's policy requiring an employee to forfeit earned but unused vacation time shall be contrary to this section and unenforceable.  

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.