Tom Harkin: “Earlier today I spoke about offering an amendment that would basically prohibit the administration from moving ahead on…”

“Earlier today I spoke about offering an amendment that would basically prohibit the administration from moving ahead on implementing a proposed rule that would basically undermine and do away with the 40-hour workweek that we have had in the Fair Labor Standards Act since 1938. Earlier this spring, the administration proposed some rule changes. Not one hearing was held on it. As we looked through these proposed rules this summer and dug into them, it would drastically undermine the ability of working families, working men and women in America, to get justly compensated for overtime work in the future. I do not know where this comes from. All of a sudden they are proposing this massive change in the way people's work is defined in this country and whether they are exempted from overtime pay or not.”