Seth Harris: “More must be done to protect the economic security of working families when illness strikes.”

The President's fiscal year 2014 budget proposal invests in the things we need to grow our economy, create jobs, and strengthen the middle class while further reducing the deficit in a balanced way.

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

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

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.