Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
This bill amends the Fair Labor Standards Act to allow private-sector employees to receive compensatory (comp) time off in lieu of monetary overtime at 1.5 hours per overtime hour. Comp time is allowed only via collective bargaining or a voluntary, documented agreement for eligible employees (1000 hours worked in prior 12 months).
Liberals emphasize worker-protection risks; conservatives emphasize employer flexibility.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a well-specified substantive amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act that defines a new compensatory-time regime for private employees, integrates the change into existing law, and includes enforcement and reporting provisions.
This bill amends the Fair Labor Standards Act to allow private-sector employees to receive compensatory (comp) time off in lieu of monetary overtime at 1.5 hours per overtime hour.
Comp time is allowed only via collective bargaining or a voluntary, documented agreement for eligible employees (1000 hours worked in prior 12 months).
Limits include a 160-hour comp time cap, required payout rules and deadlines, employee withdrawal and payout rights, anti-coercion liability, GAO reporting for three years, and a five-year sunset.
Policy is impactful but contested; built-in compromises help, yet sustained opposition from labor and narrow scope limit enactment probability.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a well-specified substantive amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act that defines a new compensatory-time regime for private employees, integrates the change into existing law, and includes enforcement and reporting provisions.
Liberals emphasize worker-protection risks; conservatives emphasize employer flexibility.
These are examples from the analysis, not a ranked list of the most-affected groups.
Liberals emphasize worker-protection risks; conservatives emphasize employer flexibility.
Skeptical and likely opposed because it creates a pathway away from guaranteed cash overtime for private workers.
Sees flexibility rhetoric but worries practical pressure and income loss for lower-wage workers.
Cautiously open but reserved.
Views comp time as potentially useful if truly voluntary and well-enforced; wants monitoring, clarity, and protection against abuse.
Generally favorable.
Treats the bill as pro-flexibility and pro-private bargaining, offering employers and employees an additional voluntary choice.
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Still ahead
Still ahead
Still ahead
Policy is impactful but contested; built-in compromises help, yet sustained opposition from labor and narrow scope limit enactment probability.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Liberals emphasize worker-protection risks; conservatives emphasize employer flexibility.
Policy is impactful but contested; built-in compromises help, yet sustained opposition from labor and narrow scope limit enactment probabil…
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a well-specified substantive amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act that defines a new compensatory-time regime for private employees, integrates the change int…
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