Employers could give child care or dependent care help without adding its value to overtime pay rates. Workers would still get time-and-a-half after 40 hours, but those benefits would not raise that rate.
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Empowering Employer Child and Elder Care Solutions Act is a House bill on the floor. The latest recorded action: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - Pursuant to clause 1(c) of rule XIX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on H.R. 2270 is postponed.
Latest action on H.R. 2270: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - Pursuant to clause 1(c) of rule XIX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on H.R. 2270 is postponed.
Who this affects: This bill mainly affects workers who get child care or dependent care help from their employer and also work overtime. Their base pay would not change, but their overtime rate could be lower because the care benefit would not count in that math. It also affects employers that offer or may offer these benefits, because the benefits would not raise their overtime costs.
Why this matters: This bill matters because care benefits could help workers, but they could also lower overtime pay compared with counting those benefits as pay. Employers may be more willing to offer child care or dependent care help if it does not increase overtime costs. The tradeoff is that some workers could get less overtime money than they would under a broader pay calculation.
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Officially: Empowering Employer Child and Elder Care Solutions Act
Employers could give child care or dependent care help without adding its value to overtime pay rates. Workers would still get time-and-a-half after 40 hours, but those benefits would not raise that rate.
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