Compensatory Time Vs. Cash Wages : Amending the Fair Labor Standards Act?

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business.

Government productivity.

Hours of labor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (26 pages, digital, PDF file)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2005.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Examines proposals in the 108th Congress to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938 to allow private sector employers to offer employees compensatory time off in lieu of cash wages for overtime hours worked. Discusses regulating hours of work, including origins of the regulatory impulse and a changing workforce psychology, compensatory time off proposals in the 108th Congress, and issues in the debate, including flexibility under FLSA, worker eligibility and participation, bureaucracy and paperwork, and the economics of deferred income.

Notes:

Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed Dec. 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.

CRS Report.

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Microfiche version: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Compensatory Time Vs. Cash Wages

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