Bill would give workers the option of being compensated in time or cash Democrats and union officials doubt it would give workers enough protections Opponents are concerned it would allow businesses ...
Q: Can a private employer require its employees to take “comp time” rather than paying them overtime? A: The Fair Labor Standards Act defines compensatory time off as paid time away from the job that ...
The Trump Administration is ushering in a whirlwind of changes to employment law and how it is enforced. This article is the first of a four-part series that will focus on those changes, including ...
Allowing exempt employees compensatory time off in lieu of overtime pay provides another option for work-life balance. Some workers prefer more time off over more money and wouldn’t mind swapping ...
Overtime or comp time? Which one suits you best? Both you and your boss may agree it would be best for you to work a sixth day when a big project is due in March, and then take off for a long weekend ...
Comp time now an option only for public-sector workers Bill would allow one-and-a-half hours of comp time for every hour of overtime Democrats have opposed previous comp time bills WASHINGTON – ...
BUCK CREEK TOWNSHIP — The former Buck Creek Township fire chief recently received nearly $80,000 for the thousands of hours of unused compensatory time he racked up throughout his career. The payout ...
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is an organization dedicated to making labor as cheap as possible to enrich the one percent as much as possible. So, it was no surprise that Leonard Court, the Chamber’s ...
Officials from the Office of Personnel Management wanted to stay on message as much as possible Thursday while presenting details of new interim regulations that allow federal employees to earn ...
Comp Time, or Compensatory Time, is an alternate way of rewarding overtime work. Instead of paying an hourly employee time-and-a-half for work done over the time allotted in the normal work week, ...