Working Families Flexibility Act of 2021
Summary
Working Families Flexibility Act of 2021 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 otherwise is required; employees may accrue a maximum of 160 hours of compensatory time. Employers are prohibited 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 must give their employees 30-days notice before discontinuing a compensatory time policy. Employers are liable to employees for damages from violations of these requirements.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Feb 4, 2021
Last action Feb 4, 2021
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Committee
1
Feb 4, 2021
Committee
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
upper
Feb 4, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
1 primary · 24 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
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State
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Mike Lee
RRepublican
Co
Chuck Grassley
RRepublican
Co
Cynthia M. Lummis
RRepublican
Co
James E. Risch
RRepublican
Co
James Lankford
RRepublican
Co
James M. Inhofe
RRepublican
Co
Jerry Moran
RRepublican
Co
John Barrasso
RRepublican
Co
John Boozman
RRepublican
Co
John Cornyn
RRepublican
Co
Josh Hawley
RRepublican
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