Holiday Pay Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [S. 3867 Introduced in Senate (IS)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3867 To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to require employers to compensate employees working on a legal public holiday for such work at a rate that is not less than one and one-half times the regular rate at which the employee is employed, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES February 12, 2026 Mr. Gallego introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to require employers to compensate employees working on a legal public holiday for such work at a rate that is not less than one and one-half times the regular rate at which the employee is employed, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Holiday Pay Act''. SEC. 2. RATE OF COMPENSATION FOR WORK PERFORMED ON LEGAL PUBLIC HOLIDAYS. (a) In General.--The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 201 et seq.) is amended-- (1) in section 3 (29 U.S.C. 203), by adding at the end the following: ``(z) `Legal public holiday' means any legal public holiday specified in section 6103(a) of title 5, United States Code.''; and (2) by inserting after section 7 (29 U.S.C. 207) the following: ``SEC. 8. RATE OF COMPENSATION FOR WORK PERFORMED ON LEGAL PUBLIC HOLIDAYS. ``No employer shall employ an employee who in any workweek is engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, or is employed in an enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, for work performed on a legal public holiday unless