FLSA Working Hours Reform: Worker Well‐Being Effects in an Economic Framework
本文构建模型预测FLSA工时与加班条款修订的影响，发现允许私人非豁免员工用补休替代加班费可能增加工时，削弱家庭友好初衷，除非配套政策防止补休滥用。调查显示，豁免员工、长工时和女性员工更偏好时间而非金钱，因此将补休纳入员工主动请求权更有利于福利。
This article discusses a model developed to predict the effects of recently proposed amendments to the FLSA workweek and overtime provisions. The model contrasts allowing compensatory time for overtime pay for private nonexempt employees to “rights to request” reduced hours. Hours demanded are likely to rise for workers who request comp time, undermining the intention of family‐friendliness and alleviating overemployment, unless accompanied by offsetting policies that would prevent the denied use or forced use of comp time and that resurrect some monetary deterrent effect. A unique survey shows that the preference for time over money and comp time is relatively more prevalent among exempt, long hours and women workers; thus, worker welfare is likely better served if comp time were incorporated into an individualized, employee‐initiated right to request.