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118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 8911 
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to require employers 
to allow employees to take meal, rest, restroom, and medical breaks, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 28, 2024 
Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN (for herself, Ms. TLAIB, Ms. NORTON, Ms. OCASIO- 
CORTEZ, Mr. JACKSON of Illinois, Mrs. RAMIREZ, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. 
JOHNSON of Georgia, Ms. JACKSON LEE, Mr. DELUZIO, Ms. WILD, Mr. 
THANEDAR, Mrs. DINGELL, Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, Ms. OMAR, 
Ms. WILLIAMS of Georgia, Ms. WILSON of Florida, Mr. TONKO, Mr. 
BOWMAN, Ms. BROWN, Ms. LEE of Pennsylvania, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Ms. 
ADAMS, Mr. LYNCH, Mr. GARCI´A of Illinois, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Ms. 
ROSS, Mr. GOMEZ, Mr. IVEY, Ms. BUSH, Ms. TOKUDA, and Ms. STE-
VENS) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Education and the Workforce 
A BILL 
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to require 
employers to allow employees to take meal, rest, rest-
room, and medical breaks, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Worker Rights and 
Support Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. REQUIRED BREAKS FOR EMPLOYEES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Fair Labor Standards Act of 
1938 (29 U.S.C. 201 et seq.) is amended by inserting 
after section 7 (29 U.S.C. 207) the following: 
‘‘SEC. 8. REQUIRED BREAKS FOR EMPLOYEES. 
‘‘(a) MEAL BREAKS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graph (3)(A) and subsection (e), an employer shall 
provide, for each 6-hour period of work performed 
by an employee, a period of break time of not less 
than 30 minutes during such period of work in 
which the employee may consume a meal. 
‘‘(2) PAYMENT.—— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in 
subparagraph (B), an employer shall not be re-
quired to compensate an employee for a break 
required under paragraph (1). 
‘‘(B) PAID BREAKS.—In the case in which 
an employee is not fully relieved of all work or 
expectation of work, or is not free to leave the 
premises or work site during a break provided 
under paragraph (1), the employer shall com-
pensate the employee for the full period of 
break time under paragraph (1), at a rate that 
is not less than one and one-half times the reg-
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ular rate at which the employee is employed by 
the employer. 
‘‘(3) WAIVER.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The period of break 
time under paragraph (1) may be waived by 
consent of the employee. 
‘‘(B) WAIVER MAY NOT BE COMPELLED.— 
An employer may not compel, or attempt to 
compel, an employee to waive the period of 
break time provided under paragraph (1). 
‘‘(b) REST AND RESTROOM BREAKS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in sub-
section (e), an employer shall provide, during each 
4-hour period of work performed by an employee, a 
period of break time that is the longer of— 
‘‘(A) 10 minutes; or 
‘‘(B) a reasonable period of time to utilize 
the nearest functioning and accessible restroom. 
‘‘(2) RATE OF COMPENSATION.—An employer 
shall compensate an employee for the break time de-
scribed in paragraph (1) at the regular rate at which 
the employee is employed by the employer. 
‘‘(c) MEDICAL BREAKS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in sub-
section (e), an employer shall provide to an employee 
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periods of break time, not to exceed 20 minutes 
each, that the employee may reasonably require due 
to a medical condition communicated to the em-
ployer by the health care provider either directly 
from such provider or indirectly from the employee. 
‘‘(2) RATE OF COMPENSATION.—An employer 
shall compensate an employee for the break time de-
scribed in paragraph (1) at the regular rate at which 
the employee is employed by the employer. 
‘‘(d) TIME WORKED.—Break time paid under this 
section shall be considered as time worked. 
‘‘(e) COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS; STATE 
LAWS.—The requirements under this section shall not— 
‘‘(1) supersede any provision in a collective bar-
gaining agreement; or 
‘‘(2) preempt any State law that provides great-
er protections to employees than the protections pro-
vided to employees under this section.’’. 
(b) ENFORCEMENT.— 
(1) PROHIBITED
ACT.—Section 15(a) of the 
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 
215(a)) is amended— 
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘or sec-
tion 7’’ and inserting ‘‘, section 7, or section 
8’’; 
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(3) STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS.—Section 6 of 
the Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947 (29 U.S.C. 255) is 
amended, in the matter preceding subsection (a), by 
inserting ‘‘(and any cause of action to enforce sec-
tion 8 of such Act)’’ after ‘‘under the Fair Labor 
Standards Act of 1938, as amended’’. 
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 10 of the 
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 210) is re-
pealed. 
Æ 
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