Bill Text: NY S00578 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to requiring employers to pay holiday premium pay to certain employees on certain federal holidays including New Year's Day, Labor Day, Memorial Day and Independence Day.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S00578 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S00578-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 578 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 6, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring employers to pay holiday premium pay to certain employees on certain federal holidays The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 190 of the labor law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 10 to read as follows: 3 10. "Holiday premium pay" means a rate of basic pay plus premium pay 4 at a rate equal to one-half his or her rate of basic pay for non-over- 5 time hours worked up to eight on certain federal holidays. 6 § 2. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 191-d to read as 7 follows: 8 § 191-d. Holiday premium pay. Every employer shall pay to each of its 9 employees, except any person employed in a bona fide executive, adminis- 10 trative, or professional capacity whose earnings are in excess of nine 11 hundred dollars a week, holiday premium pay, as defined in subdivision 12 ten of section one hundred ninety of this article, on the following 13 holidays: 14 1. New Year's Day; 15 2. Labor Day; 16 3. Memorial Day; and 17 4. Independence Day. 18 § 3. Nothing in this act shall be deemed to diminish the rights, priv- 19 ileges, or remedies of any employee under any collective bargaining 20 agreement or employment contract. 21 § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 22 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03493-01-1