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Fair Labor Standards Act

According to Mike Deblieux in his book "Legal Issues for Managers" (1996), the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) is best known because it establishes the federal minimum wage. The FLSA also requires employers to pay nonexempt employees overtime at a rate of at least one and one-half times their regular rate of pay for all hours worked over forty hours in a workweek. The FLSA does not permit non-exempt employees to give up or waive their right to be paid overtime. The FLSA requires employers to pay non exempt employees for all hours work, whether the time worked was authorized or not.

The FLSA also addresses issues including pay for On-Call time, for Training time, for Travel time, and for Compensatory time. The FLSA places numerous restrictions on the employment of minors. The FLSA also requires employers to pay women and men similar pay for similar work performed under similar circumstances (Deblieux, 1996).

According to Dana Shilling in her book "Human Resources and the Law" (1998), passage of the FLSA in 1938 established working-condition requirements for most workers engaging in or producing goods for interstate commerce. The FSLA set minimum wages, maximum hours, and overtime standards that employers were required to follow. Additionally, this act set national rules for child labor. Child labor legislation had been evolving for some time in State houses, but falling real wages during the Great Depression precipitated a national restriction on the use of child labor. In 1949, the FLSA was amended to directly prohibit many forms of child labor.

According to Shilling, the FSLA had a direct effect on compensation. It not only set minimum wage standards, but also established provisions for overtime hours and pay that would become part of wage benefits for all nonexempt workers. Shilling notes that the FLSA establishes the rules under which employees may be considered exempt from overtime requirements. He notes that t...

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