Employment & Environment: Fair Labor Standards Act

Question 1

Employment & Environment:

Fair Labor Standards Act

Answer 1

• applies to all businesses that affect interstate commerce

- 4 sections: minimum wage, overtime, child labor, equal pay provision

Question 2

Employment & Environment:
Fair Labor Standards Act
Minimum Wage

Answer 2

• “covered employees” must be paid min wage
• determined based off work week
• Interns if:
  
  • work gives company “immediate advantage”
  • displace regular worker
• Independent contractor not covered

Question 3

Employment & Environment:
Fair Labor Standards Act
Overtime

Answer 3

• employees working more than 40 hour weeks must be paid time and a half
  
  • governments can give extra time off
  • no offset for weeks when employees work less than 40 hours
• hourly, weekly, or monthly pay
• “on call” equals working not waiting
• employees not covered: CPAs

Question 4

Employment & Environment:
Fair Labor Standards Act
“Child Labor” provisions

Answer 4

• under 18 excluded from hazardous jobs
• 16 is minimum age
• 14-15 year olds limited to certain occupations
• under 14 cannot work except for parents

Question 5

Employment & Environment:
Fair Labor Standards Act
Equal Pay

Answer 5

• prohibits employer from discriminating based on sex by paying unequal wages for same work
• allows pay variance based on: seniority, merit, and quality of work
• cover everyone
• enforced by department of labor’s Wage and Hour Division