On March 11, 2022, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) proposed reverting the definition of “prevailing wage” under the Davis-Bacon Act to a definition used over 40 years ago. According to the DOL, the proposal is meant to modernize the law and “reflect better the needs of workers in the construction industry and planned federal construction investments.”[1]
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D.C. Voters Will Decide Whether to Eliminate Tipped Restaurant Wages
Washington D.C. may become the next local government to require that restaurants pay minimum wage to its servers, bartenders, and any other workers who currently earn a “tipped wage” – a lower base wage, plus tips. Presently, that base wage is $3.33 per hour.
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Comp Time for the Private Sector: House Passes “The Working Families Flexibility Act”
On May 2, 2017, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1180, better known as The Working Families Flexibility Act. The bill proposes to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) to permit private sector employees to “bank” overtime hours for later comp time use. For example, an employee working 50 hours in a workweek could, instead of receiving overtime pay for those 10 overtime hours, roll those hours into his or her comp time bank for later use. Each hour banked would be banked at an overtime rate, meaning that in this example, those 10 overtime hours would be equivalent to 15 banked hours.
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