Overtime Reform and Enhancement Act

Bill: 114-hr-5813
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Schrader, Kurt [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2016-07-14
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Department of Labor

Labor standards

Wages and earnings
Latest action: action_date: 2016-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Summaries:
action_date: 2016-07-14
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Overtime Reform and Enhancement Act</b></p> <p>This bill directs the Department of Labor, by December 1, 2016, to revise the rule published in the Federal Register on May 23, 2016, relating to exemptions (from the minimum wage and overtime pay requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act) regarding the rates of pay for executive, administrative, professional, outside sales, and computer employees. </p> <p>Labor shall revise specified regulations to increase the defining rates of pay of exempted employees from $455 per week to: </p> <ul> <li>$692 per week for executive employees effective December 1, 2016;</li> <li>$765 per week for administrative employees effective December 1, 2017;</li> <li>$839 per week for professional employees effective December 1, 2018; and</li> <li>$913 per week for computer employees effective December 1, 2019; and </li> </ul> <p>Such revisions shall also nullify the automatic updates to the amounts of salary and compensation required for such exemptions.</p> <p>Labor may only update any rate of pay related to these exemptions in accordance with federal rulemaking requirements.</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5813 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 14, 2016 Mr. Schrader (for himself, Mr. Cooper , Mr. Peterson , Mr. Cuellar , and Ms. Graham ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce A BILL To direct the Secretary of Labor to revise rules relating to changes to the exemptions from overtime pay requirements for certain employees to provide a gradual schedule for such changes, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Overtime Reform and Enhancement Act . 2. Revision of overtime pay rules Not later than December 1, 2016, the Secretary of Labor, without regard to section 553 of title 5, United States Code, shall revise the rule published in the Federal Register by the Department of Labor on May 23, 2016, relating to exemptions regarding the rates of pay for executive, administrative, professional, outside sales, and computer employees. The Secretary shall— (1) revise sections 541.100(a)(1), 541.200(a)(1), 541.300(a)(1), and 541.400(b), of title 29, Code of Federal Regulations, and any other sections of part 541 of such title necessary to— (A) provide that the rate of pay set forth in such sections shall be— (i) $692 per week effective December 1, 2016; (ii) $765 per week effective December 1, 2017; (iii) $839 per week effective December 1, 2018; and (iv) $913 per week effective December 1, 2019; and (2) nullify the provisions in section 541.607 of such title that provide for automatic updates to amounts of salary and compensation required for such exemptions. 3. Updating salary levels The Secretary of Labor may only update any rate of pay related to the exemptions in the rule described in section 3 through a rulemaking in accordance with section 553 of title 5, United States Code.