This bill would change the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 so employers must pay overtime at two times an employee's regular rate instead of one and one-half times. The text makes that wording change in section 7 and in several parts of section 13. The change would take effect 180 days after the bill becomes law.
If you are a worker covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act, overtime hours would be paid at double your regular rate instead of time-and-a-half once the change takes effect. If you are an employer, the rate you must pay for overtime hours would increase under the listed FLSA sections.
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No publicly available information in the bill text states proponents' reasons. Sponsors named in the bill include Greg Casar; Pramila Jayapal; Steven Horsford; Yassamin Ansari; Eleanor Norton; Bonnie Watson Coleman; Jonathan Jackson; Lateefah Simon; Emily Randall; Dina Titus; Jesús García; John Larson; Adriano Espaillat; Rashida Tlaib; Summer Lee; Judy Chu; Delia Ramirez; Sarah McBride; Christopher Deluzio; Haley Stevens; Bennie Thompson; Paul Tonko; Janice Schakowsky; Steve Cohen; Maxine Waters; Adelita Grijalva; Dwight Evans; Frederica Wilson; Chellie Pingree; and Shontel Brown.
No publicly available information in the bill text states opponents' reasons or objections.