118th Congress · SENATE BILLBILL

S. 1041Restoring Overtime Pay Act of 2023

A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to establish a minimum salary threshold for bona fide executive, administrative, and professional employees exempt from Federal overtime compensation requirements, and automatically update such threshold each year, and for other purposes.

Labor and employment
Introduced Mar 29, 2023
Last action Mar 29, 2023
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SummaryCRS Summary

This bill requires the Department of Labor to increase the salary threshold applicable to bona fide executive, administrative, and professional employees for purpose of determining eligibility for overtime pay. The bill phases in the increased threshold over which employees are exempt from overtime pay requirements beginning at an annual salary of $45,000 upon the bill's effective date. (The current threshold is generally $35,568.) Beginning in 2028, Labor must annually update the threshold to the 55th percentile (nationally) of weekly earnings for full-time salaried workers. Further, the exemption from overtime pay for bona fide executive, administrative, and professional employees does no...

Provisions · 5 sectionsIntroduced in Senate
Timeline · 2 actions
Mar 29, 2023
Introduced in Senate
Mar 29, 2023
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.