Two months after President Obama issued an Executive Order directing the Department of Labor to “modernize and streamline” the agency’s “white collar” overtime exemption regulations governing the scope of the executive, administrative, professional, outside sales, and computer exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Senate lawmakers have introduced legislation that builds on this idea. Sponsored by Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, the Restoring Overtime Pay for Working Americans Act (S. 2486) would entitle substantially more workers to overtime compensation, and establish recordkeeping penalties for employers.
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