On March 24, the Partnership to Protect Workplace Opportunity sent a letter to the House Education & Workforce Subcommittee on Workforce Protections thanking them for holding a hearing on the important issue of modernizing the Fair Labor Standards Act. Our letter reminds the subcommittee of the inherent flaws to the Biden-era overtime regulation and reiterates our recent request to the Trump administration urging them to abandon their defense of the regulation in court.

As we explain in the letter, “If allowed to proceed, the rule will likely result in the reclassification of large numbers of employees from salaried to hourly, leaving those workers with fewer opportunities for flexible work arrangements, career development opportunities, and access to benefits and employers with additional administrative costs and staffing challenges.” Abandoning the law in court “would allow the more reasonable 2019 Trump-era overtime regulation to remain in place.” We also point out that Congress can and should play a role on this issue and “pass legislation to ensure appropriate overtime regulations are implemented in the future.”