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Employee Rights & Laws in New Hampshire

We are employment at will state, but you have rights. You have the right to get paid and the right to see your personnel file and rebut what is in there. Most recently you have the rights to the privacy of social media and emails, the right to disclose what you are paid and the right to ask for flexible hours. These are all under the New Hampshire Department of Labor's Remedial Legislation. So not only do you have these new rights, you have a remedy to enforce them and sometimes the ability to double the damage.

275:37-b Flexible Working Arrangement. – No employer shall retaliate against any employee solely because the employee requests a flexible work schedule. Nothing in this section shall be construed to require any employer to accommodate a flexible work schedule. Nothing in this section shall be construed to create a cause of action for failure to provide a flexible work schedule at an employee's request.

Source. 2016, 182:1, eff. Sept. 1, 2016.

275:41-b Pay Disclosure. –

I. No employer shall require the following as a condition of employment:

(a) That an employee refrain from disclosing the amount of his or her wages.

(b) That an employee sign a waiver or other document that purports to deny the employee the right to disclose the amount of his or her wages, salary, or paid benefits.

II. No employer shall discharge, formally discipline, or otherwise discriminate against an employee because he or she discloses the amount of his or her wages, salary, or paid benefits.

For more information on these employment laws, contact an experience employment law attorney in New Hampshire.