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Introduced Version House Bill 2231 History

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H. B. 2231


(By Delegates Caputo and Argento)
[Introduced January 9, 2008; referred to the
Committee on Health and Human Resources then Finance.]




A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §21-5-19, relating to requiring employers to pay nurses at their regular rate of pay for all the time they are on-call on the employer's premises.

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 §21-5-19, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 5. WAGE PAYMENT AND COLLECTION.

§21-5-19. Payment for on-call time on employer's premises.
When an employer requires a nurse employee to be on-call for nursing duty on the employer's premises, the employer shall compensate the nurse at the nurse's regular rate of pay for all the time the nurse is on-call.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require
employers to pay nurses at their regular rate of pay for all the time they are on-call on the employer's premises.

This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.

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