I think that Title VII of Dodd-Frank is one of the signal achievements of that legislation.
This Tuesday was Equal Pay Day. I spent the afternoon at another institution... talking about a meaningful economic agen...
What is worse, this legislation... has nothing to do with promoting workplace flexibility.
I look forward to an opportunity to discuss legislation like the Healthy Families Act and the Paycheck Fairness Act that...
I am sure Judge Roby, your father, would be proud to see you in that position.
The Fair Labor Standards Act today would allow employers and employees to negotiate for exactly that kind of flexibility...
We just celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Family Medical Leave Act.
That amounts to an interest-free loan paid for by the workers' wages.
There is nothing that is illegal about having--as an employer giving that person that time off as a matter of law.
That directly undermines the 75-year-old Fair Labor Standards Act.
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I merely wanted to welcome Mr. Counihan to the panel; so glad that the committee sele...
The people that they are drowning, of course, are the recipients of Social Security and Medicare, veterans, and the disa...
It would seem to me that in the Administration's application of its budget, it takes that into consideration.
Now, on one side, we hear this all the time, that we have a group of people that would like to shrink up government so s...
Working families deserve better than a bill that forces them to choose between overtime pay and the family-friendly poli...
But to be clear, nothing in this bill requires that the worker has access to time off when she really needs it.
Instead, however, we are debating legislation which frankly has been recycled through this committee numerous times and ...
I would argue that in fact you are almost putting at risk of going backwards, and so we--flexibility is a critical item.
