Excludes from paid working hours any voluntary education or training, outside regular hours and without work performed, that an employee attends at the employer's request or otherwise.

• Rewrites Section 3(o) of the Fair Labor Standards Act so that voluntary education or training attended outside regular working hours does not count as hours worked
• Applies whether or not the employer offers or facilitates the program, but only if the employee performs no work for the employer during it
• Requires that attendance be voluntary and bars the employer from taking adverse action against employees who do not attend
• Keeps the existing exclusion for changing clothes or washing under a bona fide collective-bargaining agreement
• Applies to hours worked on or after the date of enactment

• Education and Workforce Committee (House)

Labor and Employment