Revision: Jan. 13, 2025, 3:43 p.m.
HB 487 - AS INTRODUCED
2025 SESSION
25-0753
05/08
HOUSE BILL 487
AN ACT relative to providing employees with advance notice of the work schedule.
SPONSORS: Rep. de Vries, Rock. 29
COMMITTEE: Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
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ANALYSIS
This bill provides employees with advance notice of the work schedule.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
25-0753
05/08
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five
AN ACT relative to providing employees with advance notice of the work schedule.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Findings. The general court finds that transparency and advance notice of work schedules for workers, particularly those with either child care or caregiving responsibilities, is critically important to managing child care and caregiving schedules and to minimizing working family costs, including mandatory child care cancellation costs as well as medical and in-home appointment costs. The general court further finds that such notice enhances the ability of employees to pick up shifts or other work when they are not scheduled in order to maximize the value of their time.
2 New Section; Labor; Advance Notice of Work Schedule. Amend RSA 275 by inserting after section 30-a the following new section:
275:30-b Advance Notice of Work Schedule.
I. An employer shall provide hourly paid employees notice of the employee's work schedule at least 7 days in advance of any pay period.
II. The requirements of this section shall not apply when regular operations of the employer are suspended due to circumstances beyond the employer's control. If a work schedule changes due to unforeseen circumstances, the employer shall provide notice to the employee as soon as possible.
III. No employer shall retaliate against any employee because the employee has exercised, or may exercise, his or her rights under this section.
IV. The requirements of this section may be waived by the parties to a valid collective bargaining agreement.
V. This section shall not apply to employers with fewer than 15 employees or to health care facilities.
VI. In this section:
(a) "Notice" means either posting the work schedule in a conspicuous place accessible to all employees or providing in-hand or by electronic mail an employee's work schedule.
(b) "Work schedule" means the staffing plan by the employer defining the days and hours to be worked by the employee.
3 Applicability. This act shall not apply to employees and employers subject to a valid collective bargaining agreement on the effective date of this act. Any collective bargaining agreement entered into on or after the effective date of this section may waive the requirements of RSA 275:30-b.
4 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.