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On the recordMarch 19, 1997
Seventy-five percent of the employees surveyed by the polling firm of Penn & Schoen Associates favored allowing employees the option of time off as an alternative to overtime wages. The first amendment would require that an employee have worked at least 1,000 hours in a period of continuous employment with the employer in a 12-month period. The second amendment would limit the number of hours of compensatory time an employee could accrue to 160 hours, moving it down from 240.
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William F. Goodling
Pennsylvania
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Discussing amendments related to employee compensatory time during a House floor debate.

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