United States · Bill · S
S. 317 (108th)
Family Time and Workplace Flexibility Act
Introduced
5 February 2003
Last action
—
Status
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1999-2002)
Sponsors
—
Subjects
Discovery layer
Source updated
18 August 2025
Summary
Family Time and Workplace Flexibility Act - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide workplace flexibility options for: (1) time-and-a-half compensatory time off; (2) biweekly work programs (allowing up to ten hours more than 40 hours of work in one week and correspondingly less in the other); and (3) flexible credit hour programs (allowing employees to work extra time to accrue flexible credit hours to reduce the hours worked on a subsequent day in a week). Requires, with respect to such compensatory time, biweekly work, and flexible credit hour programs, that employee participation be voluntary, and that collective bargaining agreements be honored. Sets forth: (1) procedures for employer discontinuance of, or employee withdrawal from, certain of such programs; and (2) prohibitions against coercion. Amends the Federal bankruptcy code to grant third priority (allowed unsecured claims for wages, salaries, or commissions) in bankruptcy proceedings to claims relating to compensatory time off. Amends the Congressional Accountability Act to provide congressional employees with such options for compensatory time, biweekly work, and flexible credit hours programs.
This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.
Timeline
No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.
Votes
No vote records are attached yet.
Versions
No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.
Documents
3 official files
Introduced in Senate (text)
Introduced in Senate · EN · 5 February 2003
Introduced in Senate (PDF)
Introduced in Senate · EN · 5 February 2003
Introduced in Senate
summary · EN · 5 February 2003
Sponsors
No sponsors or actors listed by the source.
Related records
No cross-record relationships stored yet.
Sources
PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.
- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/317
- Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/108/s/317