Employers don't need new legislation to give employees flex time, they only need it to deny them overtime pay. 40-hour week protects workers and creates jobs.
Overtime pay is more than a fringe benefit for workers.
The requirement that employers pay time and one-half when an employee works more than 40 hours in a week protects workers from excessive demands for overtime work and keeps work schedules predictable. It also provides an incentive for businesses to create additional jobs when more work exists than can be done within the normal workweek. Opening up overtime laws to abuse is not the solution working families need to their time constraints. Employees aren't given true flexibility. Those definitions are left to the employer, making this a bill about flexibility for employers not employees.