H.R. 5656: Working Families Flexibility Act of 2020

116th Congress · introduced 2020-01-17 · Labor and Employment · Latest: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

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Where it came from: introduced 2020-01-17 · official record
Who proposed it: Rep. Roby, Martha [R-AL-2] · what a sponsor is
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Official title

Working Families Flexibility Act of 2020

Plain summary

Working Families Flexibility Act of 2020 This bill revises requirements for the receipt of compensatory time off for private sector employees. Specifically, the bill authorizes private employers to provide compensatory time off to their employees at a rate of one and one-half hours for each hour of employment for which overtime compensation otherwise is required; employees may accrue a maximum of 160 hours of compensatory time. Employers are prohibited from interfering with an employee's right to or not request compensatory time off in lieu of payment of overtime compensation or from requiring an employee to use such compensatory time, and must give their employees 30-days notice before discontinuing a compensatory time policy. Employers are liable to employees for damages from violations of these requirements.

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Official text

Working Families Flexibility Act of 2020

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Roby, Martha [R-AL-2] · 16 cosponsors

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Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Glenn Thompson (R-PA), Brett Guthrie (R-KY), Glenn Grothman (R-WI), Rick W. Allen (R-GA), Dusty Johnson (R-SD), Adrian Smith (R-NE), Elise M. Stefanik (R-NY), Ted Budd (R-NC)

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Sources

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
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Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-116hr5656.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/116/hr>

Record fed-us-cong116-hr5656 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116