Frank Riggs: “I just want to again make a couple of points. One is that there are adequate employee protections built into the Working…”

“I just want to again make a couple of points. One is that there are adequate employee protections built into the Working Families Flexibility Act and that explicit language in the bill prohibits an employer from compelling an employee to take compensatory time, or time off, in lieu of overtime compensation. So no employee in any occupation in any industry can be compelled to take compensatory time off in lieu of overtime compensation. This is a good and fair bill. It is balanced. It is a bill that is designed to relieve some of the pressure, some of the strain that working families, particularly two-income families face today in America, and it is a bill that is designed to help families attend to their unique circumstance and needs. This is a practice that has been working well in the public sector for years and years and years and I can speak to that from personal experience, and I really do not understand when we have the President on record as in favor of this concept, at least in favor of this legislation, conceptually saying, 'You can choose money in the bank or time on the clock.'”