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New Hampshire · reporting time / show-up · RSA 275:43-a

Show up at the employer’s request in New Hampshire and the floor is two hours at your regular rate.

RSA 275:43-a is reporting-time, not a lunch premium and not New York spread-of-hours. On any day you report at the employer’s request (the punches prove it), pay is not less than two hours at the regular rate. Half an hour at $20 is $40. Two hours furnished is $40 with no extra. County and municipal employees are carved out. Ski and snowboard instructors at ski resorts are carved out if they receive other compensation at least equal to their rate — both sit on a toggle labeled out of scope, off by default. Good-faith notice not to report is a statutory defense.

Two hours at the regular rate — not Massachusetts’s minimum-wage floor

Official text (N.H. General Court): “On any day an employee reports to work at an employer’s request, he or she shall be paid not less than 2 hours’ pay at his or her regular rate of pay.” Source: RSA 275:43-a. Load 09:00–09:30 at $20: hours furnished are 0.5, regular wages $10, reporting-time $30, total $40. Load 09:00–11:00: two hours furnished, no extra.

Reports, furnished 0.5h @ $20 → $40 (2h × $20)
Furnished 2h+ @ $20 → hours worked only, no extra
Ski/municipal toggle on → guarantee off (carve-out / out of scope)
Good-faith notice toggle on → statutory defense, guarantee off

The statute does not create a “scheduled under 2 hours” exception. Scheduled hours is still on the panel so the agreed shift is visible; it does not turn the 2-hour floor off. New Jersey’s 1-hour call-in and Connecticut’s mercantile 4-hour rule are not this page.

County, municipal, and ski-instructor carve-outs

The section shall not apply to employees of counties or municipalities. It shall also not apply to ski and snowboard instructional employees at ski resorts, provided those employees receive other compensation that is at least equal to their rate of pay. This calculator does not invent a pay line for those jobs — the ski/municipal box is off by default and labeled out of scope.

In scope

  • Punch-in/out to prove the employee reported at the employer’s request
  • Hours actually furnished from the punches
  • Scheduled-hours field (display; does not waive the 2-hour floor)
  • 2-hour floor at the regular rate when furnished under 2 hours
  • Good-faith notice defense (toggle, off by default)
  • FLSA weekly 40 on hours worked

Out of scope

  • County and municipal employees (RSA 275:43-a carve-out)
  • Ski/snowboard instructional employees at ski resorts with other compensation ≥ rate
  • New York 12 NYCRR 146-1.6 spread-of-hours
  • California Labor Code 226.7 meal premium / lunch premiums
  • NJ 1-hour reporting-time and CT mercantile 4-hour (not this page)

FAQ

What is New Hampshire reporting-time pay under RSA 275:43-a?

On any day an employee reports to work at an employer’s request, he or she shall be paid not less than 2 hours’ pay at his or her regular rate of pay. A half-hour of work at $20 is $40, not $10. Two hours furnished is $40 with no extra.

Who is carved out of RSA 275:43-a?

The section does not apply to employees of counties or municipalities. It also does not apply to ski and snowboard instructional employees at ski resorts, provided they receive other compensation at least equal to their rate of pay. Both are labeled out of scope on this page (ski/municipal toggle off by default).

Does a good-faith call-off defeat the 2-hour guarantee?

Yes. No employer who makes a good faith effort to notify an employee not to report to work shall be liable to pay wages under this section. If the employee reports after an unsuccessful attempt, or the employer is prevented from notifying, the employee performs whatever duties are assigned. The good-faith-notice toggle is the statutory defense (off by default).

Is this a lunch premium or New York spread-of-hours?

No. This is reporting-time / show-up pay. It is not a meal-period premium and not New York 12 NYCRR 146-1.6 spread-of-hours.