Todd Rokita voted Yea (Passage) on this Legislation.
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Title: Working Families Flexibility Act of 2017
Vote to pass a bill that authorizes employers to offer compensatory time off in place of overtime pay.
Authorizes an employee to receive compensatory time off in the place of monetary overtime compensation (Sec. 2).
Specifies that compensatory time off will be paid at the rate of no less than 1.5 hours for each overtime hour worked (Sec. 2).
Authorizes an employer to offer compensatory time off as an alternative to monetary overtime compensation if the time is provided in accordance with:
A collective bargaining agreement between the employer and a labor organization certified as a representative of the employees; or
An agreement arrived at between the employer and an employee not represented by a labor union before the performance of work and affirmed by a written or otherwise verifiable record.
Requires such record to verify that (Sec. 2):
The employer has offered and the employee has chosen to receive compensatory time in place of monetary overtime compensation;
The agreement is entered into knowingly and voluntarily by such employee; and
The agreement is not a condition of employment.
Prohibits an employer from directly or indirectly intimidating, threatening, or coercing any employee for the purpose of:
Interfering with an employee’s rights to request, or not request, compensatory time in place of overtime pay; or
Requiring any employee to use such compensatory time.
Requires any employer who is determined to have violated the above provision to be liable to the affected employee for (Sec. 3):
The amount of the rate of compensation for each hour of compensatory time off accrued; and
An additional equal amount as liquidated damages reduced by the amount of such rate.
Requires an employer to permit an employee to use accrued compensatory time off within a reasonable period after making a request, if the use of such time does not unduly disrupt employer operations (Sec. 2).
Requires an employer to pay out any unused compensatory time at the higher of the following rates of compensation (Sec. 2):
The regular rate earned by an employee when the compensatory time was accrued; or
The regular rate earned by such employee at the time that such compensation was paid to the employee.
Authorizes an employee to (Sec. 2):
Withdraw a compensatory time off agreement at any time; or
Request in writing that monetary compensation be provided at any time for all compensatory time off which has not yet been used.
Requires an employer to provide monetary compensation by January 31 of each calendar year for any unused compensatory time accrued during the preceding year.
Authorizes an employer, after giving affected employees at least 30 days’ notice, to (Sec. 2):
Provide monetary compensation at any time for an employee’s unused compensatory time off if such time off is in excess of 80 hours; or
Discontinue a compensatory time off policy.
Title: Working Families Flexibility Act of 2017