Although it was enacted over 75 years ago, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) still serves the two primary purposes it had when it was enacted: It requires employers to pay employees a minimum wage, and it requires employers to pay employees whose job duties do not place them within any exemption from overtime compensation at a rate of one-and-a-half times their regular rate of pay for hours worked over 40 in a single workweek.
Important Issues and Recent Developments in Wage and Hour Law
This article examines important legal and political developments affecting the FLSA and how they develop into the most commonly litigated employment claims in American federal courts.
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