Flexibility for Workers Education Act

Bill: 118-hr-1084
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Hinson, Ashley [R-IA-2]
Introduced: 2023-02-17
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employment and training programs

Labor standards

Wages and earnings
Latest action: action_date: 2023-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-02-17
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Flexibility for Workers Education Act</strong></p> <p>This bill excludes from hours worked certain voluntary training that occurs outside an employee's regular working hours. Such training does not count as hours worked even if it is offered by the employer, provided that an employee's working conditions are not adversely affected by choosing not to participate and the employee does not perform any productive work for the employer during the training.</p>

tv_txt: I 118th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1084 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 17, 2023 Mrs. Hinson 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 exclude certain activities from hours worked, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Flexibility for Workers Education Act . 2. Treatment of attendance or participation in certain activities (a) In general Section 3(o) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 ( 29 U.S.C. 203(o) ) is amended to read as follows: (o) Hours worked In determining for the purposes of sections 6 and 7 the hours for which an employee is employed, there shall be excluded— (1) any time spent in changing clothes or washing at the beginning or end of each workday which was excluded from measured working time during the week involved by the express terms of or by custom or practice under a bona fide collective-bargaining agreement applicable to the particular employee; and (2) any time spent attending or participating in lectures, education or training programs, and similar activities, regardless of whether the activity is offered or facilitated by the employer, provided that— (A) such attendance or participation occurs outside of the employee’s regular working hours; (B) such attendance or participation is voluntary and the continuation of employment and the working conditions related to such employment is not adversely affected by non-attendance or non-participation; and (C) the employee does not perform any productive work for the employer during such attendance or participation. . (b) Effective date The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to hours worked on or after the date of enactment of this Act.