Seth Harris: “We need to skill workers up so that they can compete for those high-wage, high-skill jobs, but that is difficult for a…”

If we are able to raise wages across the board, particularly for low-wage and middle-skill workers, we are simply going to have more people spending more money.

The first is the myth that the FLSA is perfectly inflexible is just that. It is a myth.

So comp time is not like cash wages. If you pay somebody cash overtime they control how it is spent--the worker controls how it is spent.

Thank you for the opportunity to testify about the urgency of raising the Federal minimum wage.