On May 2, 2017, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1180, the Working Families Flexibility Act of 2017. Commonly referred to as the “comp time” bill, H.R. 1180 would amend the Fair Labor ...

The U.S. House of Representatives will consider amending the federal Fair Labor Standards Act to permit private-sector employers to offer compensatory time off in lieu of monetary overtime ...

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Representative Martha Roby has an op-ed in Politico today making the case for her “Working Families Flexibility Act.” The bill would allow businesses to pay their workers in comp time, rather than ...

Allowing exempt employees compensatory time off in lieu of overtime pay provides another option for work-life balance. Some workers prefer more time off over more money and wouldn’t mind swapping ...

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is an organization dedicated to making labor as cheap as possible to enrich the one percent as much as possible. So, it was no surprise that Leonard Court, the Chamber’s ...

On April 5, the House Education and Workforce Committee Subcommittee on Workforce Protections is holding a hearing on the Working Families Flexibility Act, which Rep. Martha Roby (R-Ala.) is once ...

The Office of Personnel Management on Tuesday reminded agencies that the clock is ticking on a three-year grace period for a rule that bars federal employees from stockpiling compensatory time off.