S 1043
116th Congress
Senate
Labor and Employment
Administrative remedies
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Working Families Flexibility Act of 2019
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 4, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Apr 4, 2019
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Working Families Flexibility Act of 2019
This bill revises requirements for the receipt of compensatory time off for private sector employees.
Specifically, the bill
- authorizes private employers to provide compensatory time off to their employees at a rate of one and one-half hours for each hour of employment for which overtime compensation is required,
- prohibits an employee from accruing more that 160 hours of compensatory time,
- requires an employer to give their employees a 30-day notice before discontinuing compensatory time,
- prohibits an employer from interfering with an employee's right to or not request compensatory time off in lieu of payment of overtime compensation or from requiring an employee to use such compensatory time, and
- imposes penalties on employers who violate the compensatory time requirements set forth by this bill.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Committees of jurisdiction
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