00 SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 27                                                                                          
01 Endorsing the Working Families Flexibility Act and the Family Friendly Workplace                                        
02 Act.                                                                                                                    
03 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
04  WHEREAS working men and women who are parents struggle daily with the                                                  
05 competing demands involved with being good workers and good parents; and                                                
06  WHEREAS these same workers also often face the need to care for aging parents or                                       
07 ill spouses; and                                                                                                        
08  WHEREAS time off from work could help all employees deal with their personal                                           
09 business even if they aren't involved with children or other family members; and                                        
10  WHEREAS the world of work and the societal norms of the United States have                                             
11 changed considerably from the days of 1938 when the Fair Labor Standards Act was passed                                 
12 by the Congress, which is especially reflected in the increased percentage of families where                            
13 both parents work outside the home and the increased percentage of fathers who take an active                           
14 role in rearing their children; and                                                                                     
01  WHEREAS H.R. 1, the Working Families Flexibility Act, and S. 4, the Family                                             
02 Friendly Workplace Act, acknowledge this change in society and the increased need for                                   
03 employees to have personal time away from work to attend to their needs and the needs of                                
04 their families by changing the Fair Labor Standards Act to allow employers in the private                               
05 sector to offer compensatory time to their employees in lieu of overtime wages for overtime                             
06 worked;                                                                                                                 
07  BE IT RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature endorses H.R. 1 and S. 4 and                                          
08 urges the United States Congress to meet the needs of working parents by passing this                                   
09 legislation; and be it                                                                                                  
10  FURTHER RESOLVED  that the Alaska State Legislature encourages the President                                           
11 to sign this legislation to increase the ability of employees to balance their roles as parents and                     
12 as workers.                                                                                                             
13  COPIES of this resolution shall be sent to the Honorable Bill Clinton, President of the                                
14 United States; the Honorable Al Gore, Jr., Vice-President of the United States and President                            
15 of the U.S. Senate; the members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human                                         
16 Resources; and to the Honorable Ted Stevens and the Honorable Frank Murkowski, U.S.                                     
17 Senators, and the Honorable Don Young, U.S. Representative, members of the Alaska                                       
18 delegation in Congress.