Panel: Comp Time OK Instead of Overtime

Yahoo News - AP -- The bill, agreed to by a House Workforce subcommittee, is Republicans' latest effort to revamp overtime pay requirements in the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act.

Business groups, emboldened by complete Republican control of Congress and the executive branch, have been pressing for revisions to the law, which requires pay at an hourly rate of time-and-a-half for some workers logging more than 40 hours a week.

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