[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2710 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2710

   To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide that an 
   employee's ``regular rate'' for purposes of calculating overtime 
   compensation will not be affected by certain additional payments.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 23, 1997

 Mr. Ballenger (for himself and Mr. Goodling) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the 
                               Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide that an 
   employee's ``regular rate'' for purposes of calculating overtime 
   compensation will not be affected by certain additional payments.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, 

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Rewarding Performance in 
Compensation Act''.

SEC. 2. REGULAR RATE.

    Section 7(e)(3) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 
207(e)(3)) is amended by inserting before the semicolon at the end the 
following: ``; or (d) the payments are made to reward an employee or 
group of employees for meeting or exceeding the productivity, quality, 
efficiency, or sales goals as specified in a gainsharing, incentive 
bonus, commission, or performance contingent bonus plan''.
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