[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 63 (Tuesday, May 7, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H2447]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                    WORKING FAMILIES FLEXIBILITY ACT

  (Mr. DesJARLAIS asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DesJARLAIS. Madam Speaker, I come to the floor today to voice my 
support for H.R. 1406, the Working Families Flexibility Act of 2013.
  Working families all across America face difficult choices every day 
over how to balance their responsibilities at work with their duties to 
their families at home.
  Government employees have always had the option to convert accrued 
overtime into time off from work. However, private sector employees do 
not have this option. Today's rigid and archaic wage-and-hour laws 
force these employees to take vacation days or simply not work when 
confronted with sick children, responsibilities to aging patients, or 
even seemingly mundane, yet time-consuming, tasks like running errands.
  H.R. 1406 would provide private employees that same flexibility that 
government workers enjoy while protecting both the rights of workers 
and their employers.
  I ask my colleagues to support working families and vote in favor of 
this legislation.

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