The bill aims to exclude time spent in changing clothes or washing at the beginning or end of the workday from measured working time for the purposes of the Fair Labor Standards Act. This exclusion applies if it's already omitted based on a collective-bargaining agreement. The bill seeks to provide flexibility for workers' education and activities without affecting their measured working time.
Flexibility for Workers Education Act
This bill modifies the definition of hours worked under the Fair Labor Standards Act to exclude certain voluntary training that occurs outside an employee's regular working hours. Such training does not count as hours worked even if it is offered by the employer, provided that an employee's working conditions are not adversely affected by choosing not to participate and the employee does not perform any work for the employer during the training.