To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to require employers to compensate employees working on a legal public holiday for such work at a rate that is not less than one and one-half times the regular rate at which the employee is employed, and for other purposes.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 8980 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8980 To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to require employers to compensate employees working on a legal public holiday for such work at a rate that is not less than one and one-half times the regular rate at which the employee is employed, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 21, 2026 Ms. McBride (for herself and Mr. Casar) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to require employers to compensate employees working on a legal public holiday for such work at a rate that is not less than one and one-half times the regular rate at which the employee is employed, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Holiday Pay Act''. SEC. 2. RATE OF COMPENSATION FOR WORK PERFORMED ON LEGAL PUBLIC HOLIDAYS. (a) In General.--The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 201 et seq.) is amended-- (1) in section 3 (29 U.S.C. 203), by adding at the end the following: ``(z) `Legal public holiday' means any legal public holiday specified in section 6103(a) of title 5, United States Code.''; and (2) by inserting after section 7 (29 U.S.C. 207) the following: ``SEC. 8. RATE OF COMPENSATION FOR WORK PERFORMED ON LEGAL PUBLIC HOLIDAYS. ``No employer shall employ an employee who in any workweek is engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, or is employed in an enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, for work performed on a legal public holiday unless such