Bill Text - HB255 (2019)

Relative to shift differential pay for employees who work overnight.


Revision: Dec. 27, 2018, 4:01 p.m.

HB 255 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2019 SESSION

19-0347

04/05

 

HOUSE BILL 255

 

AN ACT relative to shift differential pay for employees who work overnight.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Komi, Hills. 43

 

COMMITTEE: Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires an employer to pay a shift differential for employees working an overnight shift.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

19-0347

04/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nineteen

 

AN ACT relative to shift differential pay for employees who work overnight.

 

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

 

1  New Section; Payment of Wages; Shift Differential.  Amend RSA 275 by inserting after section 43-c the following new section:

275:43-d  Shift Differential.  Every employer shall pay to each hourly employee working between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. a minimum of $2 per hour in excess of the employee's regular hourly rate.  

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