“Overtime requirements may discourage employers from offering certain fringe benefits such as reimbursement for education, childcare, or even free meals because the benefits’ value may be included in the “regular rate” that must be paid at 150 percent for all overtime hours.”
Citation: Project 2025, Section 3.9: Department of Labor and Related Agencies, Jonathan Berry, page 624, paragraph 2
Context:
The idea that employers would offer child care if they didn’t have to pay overtime is…certainly an opinion. I’m guessing a total of ZERO employers would do this out of the goodness of their hearts. They’d simply pocket the extra overtime money and offer no additional benefits.
Full contextual analysis of Section 3.9: Department of Labor and Related Agencies here.