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<item congress="118" measure-type="s" measure-number="1041" measure-id="id118s1041" originChamber="SENATE" orig-publish-date="2023-03-29" update-date="2023-11-27"> |
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<title>Restoring Overtime Pay Act of 2023</title> |
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<summary summary-id="id118s1041v00" currentChamber="SENATE" update-date="2023-11-27"> |
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<action-date>2023-03-29</action-date> |
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<action-desc>Introduced in Senate</action-desc> |
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<summary-text><![CDATA[ <p><b>Restoring Overtime Pay Act of 2023</b></p> <p>This bill requires the Department of Labor to increase the salary threshold applicable to bona fide executive, administrative, and professional employees for purpose of determining eligibility for overtime pay. The bill phases in the increased threshold over which employees are exempt from overtime pay requirements beginning at an annual salary of $45,000 upon the bill's effective date. (The current threshold is generally $35,568.) Beginning in 2028, Labor must annually update the threshold to the 55th percentile (nationally) of weekly earnings for full-time salaried workers.</p> <p>Further, the exemption from overtime pay for bona fide executive, administrative, and professional employees does not apply if at least 20% of an employee's duties are not directly or closely related to the performance of executive or administrative activities.</p> <p>In addition, the Bureau of Labor Statistics shall publish quarterly on its website data about the weekly earnings of full-time salaried workers by census region.</p>]]></summary-text> |
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language> |
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<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights> |
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<dc:contributor>Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress</dc:contributor> |
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<dc:description>This file contains bill summaries for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.</dc:description> |
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