Empowering Employer Child and Elder Care Solutions Act

Bill: 117-hr-8388
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Stefanik, Elise M. [R-NY-21]
Introduced: 2022-07-14
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Latest action: action_date: 2022-07-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-07-14
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Empowering Employer Child and Elder Care Solutions Act</b></p> <p>This bill excludes the value of employer-funded child or dependent care from being used in calculating an eligible employee's overtime pay rate.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8388 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 14, 2022 Ms. Stefanik (for herself, Mr. Harder of California , and Mr. Cline ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor A BILL To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exclude child and dependent care services and payments from the rate used to compute overtime compensation.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Empowering Employer Child and Elder Care Solutions Act . 2. Exclusion of child care in computing overtime compensation (a) In general Section 7(e) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 ( 29 U.S.C. 207(e) ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (2), by inserting payments or reimbursements for child or dependent care services; after by the employer; ; (2) in paragraph (7), by striking or at the end; (3) in paragraph (8)(D)(ii), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; or ; and (4) by adding at the end the following: (9) the value of any child or dependent care services provided by an employer. . (b) Effective date The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to overtime compensation required to be paid for workweeks beginning on or after the date of enactment of this Act.