H. B. 2859
(By Delegate Poling)
[Introduced March 3, 2005; referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary then Finance.]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by
adding thereto a new section, designated §18B-7-13, relating
to overtime and holiday pay for classified employees; and
providing for additional payment for weekend and holiday work.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended
by adding thereto a new section, designated §18B-7-13, to read as
follows:
ARTICLE 7. PERSONNEL GENERALLY.
§18B-7-13. Overtime; holidays.
(a) A classified employee whose regular workweek is Monday
through Friday and who agrees to perform any work assignment on a
Saturday or a Sunday, shall be paid at least one-half day of work
for each day he or she reports for work and shall be paid for a
full day of work if he or she works more than three and one-half hours on a Saturday or Sunday.
(b) A classified employee required to work on any legal
holiday shall be paid at a rate of one and one-half times the
employee's hourly wage rate.
(c) A full-time classified employee required to work in excess
of a normal working day during any week containing a legal holiday
shall be paid for the additional hours or fraction of the
additional hours at a rate of one and one-half times the employee's
hourly wage rate.
(d) When used in this section, the term "legal holiday" means
those days designated in section one, article two, chapter two of
this code.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to set compensation
standards for classified employees who work overtime on weekends or
holidays.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.