Project 2025 Tracker / What’s done, what’s next

18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies · Minor · Needs Congress

Limit telework overtime to days exceeding 10 hours of work

Not started

589 18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies

“Congress should clarify that overtime for telework applies only if the employee exceeds 10 hours of work in a specific day (and the total hours for the week exceed 40).”

What has happened

  1. Not started

    No bill of the 119th Congress limits overtime liability for teleworking employees to days exceeding ten hours of work. The only telework bill in the Congress, S. 82, the Telework Reform Act of 2025, governs telework by *federal* employees and was referred to Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on 2025-01-13 with no further action.

    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 telework and home-office asks (#1621, #1622, #1623).
  • §3b adjacent-bill rule: a bill about federal-employee telework policy is not a bill about private sector FLSA overtime computation for teleworkers.
Action
restrict
Object
Overtime rules for telework
ID
1621