House Panel Advances Bills Amending FLSA To Encourage Job-Related Training, Child Care Services 

April 16, 2025

What's New

The House Committee on Education and the Workforce has advanced two bills to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). These bills would incentivize employers to offer voluntary job-related training and to provide overtime-eligible employees with child and dependent care benefits.  

H.R. 2262 would exclude time spent in after-hours training programs from hours worked, even if the training programs are job-related. Current DOL guidance treats job-related training programs as compensable time even if they are voluntary and outside work hours.  

H.R. 2270 would exclude child or dependent care services from the “regular rate” of pay. The “regular rate” of pay, which is the basis for calculating overtime premium pay, includes all compensation for employment unless an exclusion applies. H.R. 2270 would allow employers to exclude reimbursements and payments for child or dependent care services from an  employee’s regular rate. Instead, these payments would be treated like employer payments for health insurance.

What It Means

H.R. 2262 and H.R. 2270 could motivate employers to offer after-hours training programs and reimbursements and payments for employees’ child or dependent care services.

Given the current political reality, we do not expect these bills to become law in the near future. However, they are relatively new ideas that could slowly take root.

What You Should Do

CWC members can learn more about the FLSA though our course Fundaments of Wage and Hour Compliance.

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