With Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) expected to bring the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013 (H.R. 1010; S. 460) up for consideration in the remaining legislative weeks of 2013, Republican lawmakers are countering with their own workplace proposals. On Wednesday, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was one of two Senators to introduce legislation that would allow exempt private sector employees to opt for paid time off in lieu of payment for overtime hours worked. The Family Friendly and Workplace Flexibility Act (S. 1626) would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to allow employers to offer comp time to employees at a rate of one-and-one-half hours for every hour of overtime work. The process would be voluntary and, according to a press release on the measure, would create.
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