[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 64 (Wednesday, May 8, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H2492]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    WORKING FAMILIES FLEXIBILITY ACT

  (Mr. PAYNE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. PAYNE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to the so-
called Working Families Flexibility Act. Mr. Speaker, this is a wolf in 
sheep's clothing--a guise to pressure employees to work more and get 
paid less.
  H.R. 1406, which I like to call ``Paying Working Families Less Act,'' 
cuts overtime pay and eliminates all flexibility. Rather than pay 
overtime when the work is performed, this bill provides that the 
employers have up to a year to pay an employee his overtime, 
essentially providing employers unauthorized, interest-free loans. This 
bill will hurt working class families and wage workers who depend on 
their overtime to pay their rent, their grocery bills, their heating 
and water bills. They can't afford to wait a year for pay that they 
have rightfully earned.
  Mr. Speaker, this is not a worker or a family friendly bill, as some 
of my colleagues are leading this body to believe. Rather, it is a 
blatant attempt to dismantle the Fair Labor Standards Act and roll back 
workers' rights 100 years. I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on this 
bill. We should be strengthening the fair labor laws and standards for 
working men and women, not destroying them.

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