Seth Harris: “Thank you for the opportunity to testify about the urgency of raising the Federal minimum wage.”

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

We need to skill workers up so that they can compete for those high-wage, high-skill jobs, but that is difficult for a lot of workers.

I think, frankly, that it is a failure of political will. It is really incumbent upon Congress to provide those resources.

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.