Bill Text: NJ A1231 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that regular work week of all newly-hired full-time State or local government employees will be 40 hours.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-10 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly State Government Committee [A1231 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2012-A1231-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
215th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2012 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman PAUL D. MORIARTY
District 4 (Camden and Gloucester)
SYNOPSIS
Provides that regular work week of all newly-hired full-time State or local government employees will be 40 hours.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel
An Act providing that the regular work week of all newly-hired full-time State or local government employees will be 40 hours and amending and supplementing various parts of the statutory law.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. N.J.S.11A:6-24 is amended to read as follows:
11A:6-24. State employees in the career, senior executive and unclassified services in titles or circumstances designated by the Civil Service Commission shall be eligible for overtime compensation and holiday pay. Overtime compensation and holiday pay shall be either cash compensation at a rate representing 1 1/2 times the employee's hourly rate of base salary or compensatory time off at a rate of 1 1/2 hours for each hour worked beyond the regular workweek, at the discretion of the department head, with the approval of the commission. The regular work week of a full-time employee in the career, senior executive and unclassified services, who commences employment after the effective date of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill), shall be 40 hours.
The commission shall adopt rules for the implementation of hours of work, overtime compensation and holiday pay programs, which shall include but need not be limited to application and eligibility procedures.
(cf: P.L.2008, c.29, s.56)
2. Section 1 of P.L.1951, c.51 (C.52:14-17.13) is amended to read as follows:
1. The work week for basic annual salary for employees in the State service, insofar as practicable and except as provided in section 2 of this act, shall not be more than 40 hours, except that the work week for basic annual salary for employees commencing employment after the effective date of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill), shall be 40 hours; and, notwithstanding any inconsistent provisions of law, any employee in the State service who is authorized or required to work in any week more than the hours of work established as the regular and normal work week for that class or agency shall be eligible to receive, at the discretion of the department head with the approval of the State Treasurer, the President of the Civil Service Commission and the Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting in the Department of Treasury, either (1) compensation for the hours worked in excess of the established work week for that class or agency at a rate representing 1 1/2 times the individual's hourly rate calculated by a proration of the annual salary rate of the individual employee, or (2) compensatory time off at the rate of 1 1/2 hours for each hour worked in excess of the established work week for that class or agency.
(cf: P.L.1968, c.52, s.1)
3. (New section) The regular work week of a full-time employee of a political subdivision to which the provisions of Title 11A of the New Jersey Statutes apply who commences employment after the effective date of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill) shall be 40 hours.
4. (New section) The regular work week of a full-time employee of a local board of education, other than a teaching staff member, who commences employment after the effective date of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill) shall be 40 hours.
5. (New section) The regular work week of a full-time employee of a unit of local government who commences employment after the effective date of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill) shall be 40 hours.
6. (New section) The regular work week of a full-time law enforcement officer or firefighter employed by a county or municipality who commences employment after the effective date of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill) shall be 40 hours.
7. This act shall take effect immediately but shall not apply to any employee covered by a collective bargaining agreement in effect on the act's effective date that provides for other than a regular work week of 40 hours until the expiration of that collective bargaining agreement.
STATEMENT
This bill provides that the regular work week of all newly-hired full-time State or local government employees, except teachers, will be 40 hours. It will take effect immediately but will not apply to any employee covered by a collective bargaining agreement in effect on the act's effective date that provides for other than a regular work week of 40 hours until the expiration of that collective bargaining agreement.
