1 - What day are you giving off for the countries Atheist population, or do we make them work 7 days because they are godless heathens?
2 - Some people of lower means may need to work the full 7 day week. If you decide to legislate a unpaid "Sabbath day" off for them they not make rent next month or eat this week.
NYS already has laws on the books making 7 days a week illegal.
NYS defines a calendar workweek as Sunday 12.00 am through Saturday at 11.59pm.
New York State Department of Labor
Division of Labor Standards
Section 161.
One day rest in seven. 1. Every employer operating a factory, mercantile
establishment, hotel, restaurant, or freight or passenger elevator in any building or place
shall,except as herein otherwise provided, allow every person employed in such establishment or in the
care, custody or operation of any such elevator, at lease twenty-four consecutive hours of rest in
any calendar week. Every employer operating a place in which motion pictures are shown shall
allow the projectionist or operator of the motion picture machine and engineers and firemen therein
at least twenty-four consecutive hours of rest in any calendar week. Every employer operating a
place in which legitimate theatre productions such as dramatic and musical productions are shown
or exhibited shall allow all employees, including the performers in the cast therein and engineers
and firemen, at least twenty-four consecutive hours of rest in each and every calendar week, but
this shall not apply to any place wherein motion pictures, vaudeville or incidental stage
presentations or a combination thereof are regularly given throughout the week as the established
policy of such place; except that engineers and firemen employed in such place shall be allowed at
least twenty-four consecutive hours of rest in any calendar week. No employer shall operate such
establishment, place or elevator on Sunday unless he shall comply with subdivision three. This
section does not authorize any work on Sunday not permitted now or hereafter by law.
Every owner, lessee and operator of a dwelling, apartment, loft and office building, garage,
storage place and building, wherein or whereat a watchman or watchmen or engineer or fireman
are employed, shall allow such person or persons so employed at least twenty-four consecutive
hours of rest in each and every calendar week.
Every owner, lessee or operator of a warehouse, storagehouse, office, dwelling, apartment, loft
and any other building or structure wherein a janitor, superintendent, supervisor or manager or
engineer or fireman is employed, shall allow such person or persons so employed at least twenty-
four consecutive hours of rest in each and every calendar week.
2. This section shall not apply to:
a. Foreman in charge;
b. Employees in dairies, creameries, milk condenseries, milk powder factories, milk sugar
factories, milk shipping stations, butter and cheese factories, ice cream manufacturing plants and
milk bottling plants, where not more than seven persons are employed;
c. Employees, if the board in its discretion approves, engaged in an industrial or
manufacturing process necessarily continuous, in which no employee is permitted to work more
than eight hours in any calendar day;
d. Employees whose duties include not more than three hour’s work on Sunday in setting
sponges in bakeries, caring for live animals, maintaining fires, or making necessary repairs to
boilers or machinery.
e. Employees in resort or seasonal hotels and restaurants in rural communities and in cities and
villages having a population of less than fifteen thousand inhabitants, excluding that portion of the
population of a third class city residing outside of its corporation tax district where such city embraces
the entire area of a former township. As used in this subdivision, the term “resort” shall apply to any
establishment enumerated herein which operates for not more than four calendar months and fifteen
days in each year, and the term “seasonal” shall apply to any establishment enumerated herein in
which the number of employees is increased by at least one hundred per cent from the slack to the
busiest season.
f. Employees in dry dock plants engaged in making repairs to ships.
3. Before operating on Sunday, every employer shall designate a day of rest, consisting of at least
twenty-four consecutive hours of rest in each and every calendar week for each employee, and shall
notify each employee in advance of his or her designated day of rest. No employee shall be permitted
to work on his designated day of rest.
4. Every employer shall keep a time book showing the names and addresses of his employees and
the hours worked by each of them in each day.
5. If there shall be practical difficulties or unnecessary hardship in carrying out the provisions of this
section or the rules promulgated hereunder, the commissioner may make a variation therefrom if the
spirit of the act be observed and substantial justice done. Such variation shall describe the conditions
under which it shall be permitted and shall apply to substantially similar conditions. A properly indexed
record of variations shall be kept by the department. Each application for a variation shall be accompanied
by a non-refundable fee of forty dollars.
6. In case of violation of any of the provisions of this section, the commissioner shall issue an order
directing compliance therewith, and upon failure so to comply shall commence a prosecution as provided
by law
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