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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LC002853/SUB A |
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