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S 846 109th Congress Senate Labor and Employment Administrative procedure Congress Cost of living adjustments Defined benefit pension plans Department of Labor Economics and Public Finance Government Operations and Politics Hours of labor Indexing (Economic policy) Law Legislation Minimum wages Pension funds

A bill to provide fair wages for America's workers.

Introduced: April 19, 2005 Introduced by: Durbin, Richard J. Democratic · Illinois See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
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Apr 20, 2005
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 80.
Apr 19, 2005
Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3902-3903)
Apr 19, 2005
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) to deny any force or effect to any portion of a rule promulgated on April 23, 2004, that has the effect of exempting from FLSA overtime compensation requirements (which limit maximum hours at regular compensation) any employee who would not otherwise be exempted if regulations in effect on March 31, 2003, remained in effect. Reinstates that portion of such regulations that would prevent such an employee from being exempt. Directs the Secretary of Labor to increase, in a specified manner, the minimum salary level for the exemption for executive, administrative, and managerial occupations from FLSA overtime compensation requirements.

Amends the FLSA to increase the Federal minimum wage to: (1) $5.85 an hour, beginning on the 60th day after enactment of this Act; (2) $6.55 an hour, beginning 12 months after that 60th day; and (3) $7.25 an hour, beginning 24 months after that 60th day.

Expresses the sense of the Senate regarding multiemployer pension plans.

What's happening now April 20, 2005

Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 80.