FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT

Articles and editorials

Bill Takes on Disturbing Pay Gap—But Offers Flawed Remedies, S7926 [17NO]

Fair Pay Isn't Always Equal Pay, S7927 [17NO]

Paycheck Fairness?, S7926 [17NO]

Paycheck Fairness Act—A Flawed Approach to Job Bias, S7927 [17NO]

Bills and resolutions

Business and industry: require employers to keep records on non-employees who perform labor or services for remuneration and provide a special penalty for employers who misclassify employees (see S. 3254), S2587 [22AP] (see H.R. 5107), H2842 [22AP]

Civil rights: improve remedies for discrimination in the payment of wages based on sex (see S. 3772), S7034 [13SE]

Dept. of Labor: establish wage theft prevention and community partnership grant program (see H.R. 6268), H7389 [29SE]

———suspend the statute of limitations for certain rights of action under the Fair Labor Standards Act during investigations (see S. 3877), S7787 [29SE]

Federal firefighters: provide that any hours worked by Federal firefighters under a qualified trade-of-time arrangement shall be excluded for purposes of determinations relating to overtime pay (see S. 3365), S3716 [13MY]

Health care professionals: amend certain exemptions for direct care workers and improve systems for collection and reporting of data on the direct care workforce (see S. 3696), S6651 [3AU] (see H.R. 5902), H6282 [28JY]

Cloture motions

Civil rights: improve remedies for discrimination in the payment of wages based on sex (S. 3772), motion to proceed, S7730 [29SE], S7928 [17NO]

Lists

Organizations opposing S. 3772, Paycheck Fairness Act, S7926 [17NO]

Motions

Civil rights: improve remedies for discrimination in the payment of wages based on sex (S. 3772), S7730 [29SE]

Remarks in House

Civil rights: improve remedies for discrimination in the payment of wages based on sex (H.R. 12), H2648 [20AP], E633 [22AP]

———improve remedies for discrimination in the payment of wages based on sex (S. 182), H2768 [21AP]

Federal firefighters: provide that any hours worked by Federal firefighters under a qualified trade-of-time arrangement shall be excluded for purposes of determinations relating to overtime pay (H.R. 3243), H7038 [28SE], H7379 [29SE]

Health care professionals: amend certain exemptions for direct care workers and improve systems for collection and reporting of data on the direct care workforce (H.R. 5902), E1458 [28JY]

Minimum wage: adjust minimum wage schedule for American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands, H7361-H7364 [29SE]

———impact of increase, H2276 [24MR]

Remarks in Senate

Civil rights: improve remedies for discrimination in the payment of wages based on sex (S. 182), S2470 [20AP]

———improve remedies for discrimination in the payment of wages based on sex (S. 3772), S7048 [13SE], S7052 [14SE]

———improve remedies for discrimination in the payment of wages based on sex (S. 3772), motion to proceed, S7730 [29SE], S7879 [15NO], S7924-S7929 [17NO]

Health care professionals: amend certain exemptions for direct care workers and improve systems for collection and reporting of data on the direct care workforce (S. 3696), S6653 [3AU]

Texts of

H.R. 3243, provide that any hours worked by Federal firefighters under a qualified trade-of-time arrangement shall be excluded for purposes of determinations relating to overtime pay, H7038 [28SE]

S. 3772, Paycheck Fairness Act, S7040-S7042 [13SE]