Chapter 293
2019 -- S 1000 SUBSTITUTE A
Enacted 07/19/2019

A N   A C T
RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS - MINIMUM WAGES

Introduced By: Senator Frank A. Ciccone
Date Introduced: June 20, 2019

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:
     SECTION 1. Section 28-12-3.2 of the General Laws in Chapter 28-12 entitled "Minimum
Wages" is hereby amended to read as follows:
     28-12-3.2. Wages for failure to furnish shift work.
     (a) An employer who requests or permits any employee to report for duty at the
beginning of a work shift and does not furnish at least three (3) hours work on that shift, shall pay
the employee not less than three (3) times the regular hourly rate. Provided, however, that shifts
scheduled for less than three (3) hours are permissible when entered into voluntarily and agreed
upon by both the employer and employee. In the event that an employee reports for duty at the
beginning of a work shift and the employer offers no work for him or her to perform, the
employer shall pay the employee not less than three (3) times the regular hourly rate or the
amount they would have earned for any shifts consisting of less than three (3) hours, as allowed
under this section.
     (b) This section shall not apply to students enrolled full-time at colleges or universities
located in this state who are also an employee of the college or university they attend, except as
follows: a college or university that employs students and requests or permits a student employee
to report for duty at the beginning of a work shift, the length of which has been mutually agreed
to, and the employer does not furnish work for the student employee to perform, will pay the
student for the number of hours of the agreed upon shift.
     SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.
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