The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) regulates minimum wage, overtime, equal pay, recordkeeping, and child labor for employees of enterprises engaged in interstate or foreign commerce and employees of state and local governments. Although FLSA applies in all states, it permits states to regulate areas not covered by FLSA and to afford workers greater protection. When state law and FLSA conflict, employers must follow the provision that is more favorable to the employee.
The Wage and Hour War: Managing Risk in an Ever-Changing Environment
Wage and hour class action litigation has now outstripped all other employment-related litigation--and no wonder, because fully 80 percent of all employers aren't in compliance with the FLSA.That was the message of Tammy McCutcheon and Lee Schreter, shareholders at Littler-Mendelson, in a recent SHRM webcast.
Want to Prevent FLSA Violations? Train with These Case Studies
Are your supervisors and managers adequately trained on wage and hour issues? If not, they could be violating provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and putting your company at risk for costly lawsuits.
Is 'Doing' the Same as Being 'Responsible for'?
Six Georgia paramedics who were switched from nonexempt to exempt status charged that their reclassification violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Because they had become firefighters, the county made the change under a congressional amendment to FLSA. The paramedics disagreed.
Must Exempts Get Time-and-a-Half for Extra Work?
A large group of Maryland corrections workers filed a grievance over a new requirement that they fill in for nonexempt employees after their regular hours. The governor had ordered the prison system to reduce overtime by $127,000 a year, and having exempt officers perform extra duties was how the system coped with the mandate.
Computer Professionals and Overtime
Determining whether an employee should be exempt or nonexempt from overtime pay is always fraught with danger, but properly classifying a computer professional can be especially difficult.
What Will the New FLSA Regulations Cost You?
We keep hearing how the new
regulations to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) will cost employees a bundle in time and implementation costs, but what does this really mean to you
in dollars and cents?
