18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies · Minor · Needs Congress
Allow overtime to be calculated over two- or four-week periods
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“Congress should provide flexibility to employers and employees to calculate the overtime period over a longer number of weeks. Specifically, employers and employees should be able to set a two- or four-week period over which to calculate overtime.”
What has happened
- Not started
No bill of the 119th Congress allows employers and employees to set a two- or four-week overtime computation period. The FLSA's forty-hour workweek in 29 U.S.C. 207(a) is unchanged, and the only alternative-period mechanism in the statute — the 207(k) public-safety work period and the 207(b) collectively bargained annual guarantee — has not been extended.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- Negative search: chapter log, Cluster negative search — the FLSA amendment asks.
- The Working Families Flexibility Act (#1613) is the nearest bill in subject matter: it offers compensatory time in place of overtime pay, not a longer averaging period. Adjacent under §3b.
- Action
- expand
- Object
- Overtime calculation period
- ID
- 1631