Last week Rep. Francis Rooney (R-FL) introduced a bill that would remove travel agents from the Department of Labor’s list of workers that cannot qualify for the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) overtime exemption for retail workers. Under the exemption at issue, an employee must work at an establishment “recognized as retail.” In 1970, the DOL created a list of industries—including travel agents—that were expressly excluded from using this retail service establishment exemption. The Travel Agent Retail Fairness Act (H.R. 2515) would strike travel agencies from this regulatory list.
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