Senate Bill No. 410
(By Senator Redd)
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[Introduced January 25, 2002; referred to the Committee
on Labor; and then to the Committee Finance.]
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A BILL to amend article five-c, chapter twenty-one of the code
of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated
section three-a, relating to mandatory rest periods for
employees.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article five-c, chapter twenty-one of the code of West
Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be
amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section
three-a, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 5C. MINIMUM WAGE AND MAXIMUM HOURS STANDARDS FOR
EMPLOYEES.
§21-5C-3a. Rest periods for employees.
On and after the first day of July, two thousand two, no
employer may require any employee to work without a rest period
of at least ten minutes during every four hours worked:
Provided, That this section does not apply to employees who are
under the federal Railway Labor Act. These rest periods shall
be in addition to the regularly scheduled lunch period. No
reduction in compensation may be imposed on an employee as the
result of an employer's compliance with this section.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide for mandatory
rest periods for employees.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.