Tom Harkin: “First, there will be two steps in my amendment. You check the old…”

On the recordMay 4, 2004

First, there will be two steps in my amendment. You check the old regulations. If the employee is required to be given overtime under the old regulations, that employee will continue to get overtime under the new regulations because the Department of Labor says they do not want to take overtime away from anyone now making it. My amendment clarifies it. Secondly, if the employee is not getting overtime under the present regulations, but the new regulations allow the employee to get overtime, the employee gets overtime. So we expand it. They want to protect and expand overtime, and that is exactly what my amendment does. It is very clear and very concise. Senator Specter is right, the new rule, at least what we heard about in the hearing this morning, is not a clarification. What we heard in the hearing is more ambiguous, and it is going to lead to much more litigation.

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Tom Harkin

Democratic · Iowa

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Discussing his amendment related to overtime regulations during Senate floor debate.

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Tom Harkin: “First, there will be two steps in my amendment. You check the old regulations. If the employee is required to be given…”

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