§ 696-i. Savings clause. 1. If any provision of this article or the application thereof to any person, occupation or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the article and the application of such provision to other persons, employees, occupations, or circumstances shall not be affected thereby. 2. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section or part of this article shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered. It is hereby declared to be the intent of the legislature that this article would have been enacted even if such invalid provisions had not been included herein. 3. If section six hundred ninety-six-a, section six hundred ninety-six-b, or section six hundred ninety-six-c of this article or any portion thereof shall be adjudged, whether by final judgment, a temporary restraining order, or a preliminary injunction, by any court of competent jurisdiction to be preempted by federal law, then the "standard benefits supplement rate" defined in subdivision six of section six hundred ninety-six-a of this article shall immediately mean the following:(a) An hourly supplement of four dollars and fifty-four cents furnished to an employee by providing at least four dollars and fifty-four cents per hour beginning on July first, two thousand twenty-one in one of the following ways: (i) in the form of health and/or other benefits, not including paid leave, that cost the employer the entire required hourly supplemental amount; (ii) by providing a portion of the required hourly supplement in the form of health and/or other benefits, not including paid leave, and the balance in cash; or (iii) by providing the entire supplement in cash.
(b) The value of such supplement shall be no less than four dollars and fifty-four cents per hour.
(c) The standard benefits supplement rate shall apply only to the first forty hours worked by each covered airport worker in each week and shall not apply to any overtime hours worked by any covered airport worker.
(d) The standard benefits supplement rate shall apply to any paid leave taken by a covered airport worker that does not exceed forty hours in a week. 4. If section six hundred ninety-six-a, section six hundred ninety-six-b, or section six hundred ninety-six-c of this article or any portion thereof shall be adjudged by any preliminary relief, including a temporary restraining order or a preliminary injunction, by any court of competent jurisdiction to be preempted by federal law but is later adjudged by the same court not to be preempted by federal law in a final judgment, then the definition of "standard benefits supplement rate" shall immediately revert to the definition stated in subdivision six of section six hundred ninety-six-a of this article.
