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	Fair Labor Standards Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The FLSA is administered by the Wage and Hour Division of the United States Department of Labor, which conducts audits and workplace inspections.
		At 29 U.S.C., the FLSA prohibits retaliation against employees who make complaints and requires employers to keep records of the hours worked by all employees, even those who are exempt.
		The Fair Labor Standards Act was amended by the Equal Pay Act of 1963 to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex in the payment of wages.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fair_Labor_Standards_Act (518 words)

	Compliance Assistance By Law - The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
		Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Hours Worked Advisor — Helps employers and employees determine which work-related activities are considered "hours worked" and thus hours for which employees must be paid.
		Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Section 14(c) Advisor — Helps employers, employees and their family members understand FLSA Section 14(c), which authorizes employers, after receiving a certificate from DOL, to pay less than the federal minimum wage to workers who have disabilities for the work being performed.
		Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Child Labor Rules Advisor — Helps young workers and their employers, parents, and educators understand the FLSA's child labor provisions, which dictate the hours youth can work and the jobs they may and may not perform.
	www.dol.gov /dol/compliance/comp-flsa.htm (1069 words)

	Fair Labor Standards Act FLSA Liebert Cassidy Whitmore
		FLSA litigation has again increased in the last few years, as employees and their attorneys become captivated by the promise of multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements.
		The FLSA workweek, not the calendar week or the pay period, is the sole standard by which FLSA overtime is measured for non-exempt employees.
		The FLSA requires that an employee be allowed to use his CTO within a reasonable time period unless the use of the CTO by the employee would unduly disrupt the operations of the agency.
	www.flsaaudit.com /article_bpw.html (5445 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Fair Labor Standards Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT [Fair Labor Standards Act] or Wages and Hours Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1938 to establish minimum living standards for workers engaged directly or indirectly in interstate commerce, including those involved in production of goods bound for such commerce.
		A major provision of the act was establishment of a minimum wage, initially $0.25 an hour, along with a maximum workweek of 44 hours; these were to become to become $0.40 an hour and 40 hours after seven years.
		Fair compensation for 'on call' employees: while overtime pay is regulated by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, the specifics for on-call time compensation are unclear.
	encyclopedia.infonautics.com /html/F/FairLabo.asp (430 words)

	Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as Amended (29 USC §201 et seq.; 29 CFR 510-794)
		The Act applies to enterprises that have employees who are engaged in interstate commerce, producing goods for interstate commerce, or handling, selling or working on goods or materials that have been moved in or produced for interstate commerce.
		The Act requires that covered employees, unless otherwise exempt, be paid not less than one and one-half times their regular rates of pay for all hours worked in excess of 40 in a workweek.
	cwx.prenhall.com /bookbind/pubbooks/burns3/medialib/docs/labor1938.htm (1470 words)

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		Also, FLSA does not limit the number of hours in a day or days in a week an employee may be required or scheduled to work if the employee is at least 16 years old.
		Child Labor Provisions The FLSA child labor provisions are designed to protect the educational opportunities of minors and prohibit their employment in jobs and under conditions detrimental to their health or well-being.
		The FLSA prohibits the shipment of goods in interstate commerce which were produced in violation of the minimum wage, overtime pay, child labor, or special minimum wage provisions.
	www.empowermentzone.com /flsa.txt (2802 words)

	Fair Labor Standards Act
		The Fair Labor Standards Act, which is generally known by its acronym FLSA, is a federal law which sets minimum wage, overtime pay, equal pay, recordkeeping and child labor standards for employers who are covered by the Act.
		However, the provisions of the FLSA have been extended and now generally apply to public sector employers, although some specific employees of cities and towns still may be exempt from some of the provisions of the Act.
		Fair Labor Standards Act Regulations - Title 29 Code of Federal Regulations - These are the federal administrative regulations issued by the U.S. Department of Labor that accompany the FLSA.
	www.muniresearch.net /Subjects/Legal/flsa/flsaweb.aspx (625 words)

	DLC FLSA Fair Labor Standards Act
		Act Oct. 26, 1949, Section 3(c), included parental employment of a child under 16 years of age in an occupation found by the Secretary of Labor to be hazardous for children between the ages of 16 and 18 years, in definition of oppressive child labor.
		In Subsection (I), "Secretary of Labor" substituted for "Chief of the Children's Bureau in the Department of Labor" and for "Chief of the Children's Bureau" pursuant to Reorg.
		be considered, for purposes of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as volunteers and not as employees.
	www.eridlc.com /hr-laws/index.cfm?fuseaction=hrlaws.flsa&country=us (3893 words)

	Fair Labor Standards Act Labor Law (Minimum Wage) - Labor Law Posters for State, Federal, & OSHA
		The Act covers domestic service workers, such as day workers, housekeepers, chauffeurs, cooks, or full-time babysitters, if they receive at least $1,300 (2001) in cash wages from one employer in a calendar year, or if they work a total of more than eight hours a week for one or more employers.
		An enterprise that was covered by the Act on March 31, 1990, and that ceased to be covered because of the increase in the annual dollar volume test to $500,000, as required under the 1989 amendments to the Act, continues to be subject to the overtime pay, child labor and recordkeeping requirements of the Act.
		As noted above, the FLSA’s child labor provisions for nonagricultural work include restrictions on the hours of work and occupations for youths under age 16 and restrictions on employment of 16 and 17 year olds in occupations found to be hazardous by the Department.
	www.sfollp.net /fair-labor-law-minimum-wage.asp (1002 words)

	Modernizing the Fair Labor Standards Act for the 21st Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The FLSA needs to be updated to give workers greater flexibility in ordering their lives, both on and off the job, and to permit employers to reward workers financially for improving productivity and profitability without being burdened with the unpredictable and complex requirements of a Depression-era labor law.
		The FLSA should allow for a variety of innovative compensation and benefit options; the options should be voluntary, not mandated by government; the options should be flexible and revocable; compliance should be simplified to the greatest extent possible; and the legislation should provide reasonable protections for both workers and employers.
		The FLSA excludes from the calculation of the regular rate of pay any payments that are made pursuant to a bona fide profit-sharing plan, trust, or bona fide thrift or savings plan to the extent the amounts paid to an employee are determined without regard to hours of work, production, or efficiency.
	www.heritage.org /Research/Labor/BG1457.cfm (5545 words)

	Kentucky: Personnel Cabinet - Fair Labor Standards Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A goal of the Personnel Cabinet is to ensure that all agencies of the Executive Branch of state government are in total compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
		The purpose of the new rules is to update outdated language in the FLSA regulations, simplify the regulations making them easier to understand, increase the minimum salary level required for exemption status and better define job duties of executives, administrators and professionals.
		This is the documentation for determining FLSA exempt or non-exempt status.
	personnel.ky.gov /info/flsa.htm (406 words)

	FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT - UAW CAP 2005
		Enacted in 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is the bedrock family-friendly law.
		The FLSA established the minimum wage to assure that people who work at jobs are not forced to live in poverty.
		Because the FLSA does not provide for automatic inflation adjustments, Congress periodically needs to raise the minimum wage to keep up with increases in the cost of living.
	www.uaw.org /cap/05/issues/issue08.cfm (1602 words)

	FindLaw: The Fair Labor Standards Act: Your Right To Get Paid - Attorney, Attorneys, Lawyer, Lawyers, Law, Laws, ...
		The FLSA was passed in 1938 after the Depression, when many employers took advantage of the tight labor market to subject workers to horrible conditions and impossible hours.
		The FLSA applies only to employers whose annual sales total $500,000 or more, or who are engaged in interstate commerce.You might think that this would restrict the FLSA to covering only employees in large companies, but in reality the law covers nearly all workplaces.
		The FLSA was passed to clamp down on employers who cheated workers of their fair wages.
	cobrands.business.findlaw.com /employment_employee/nolo/ency/DF54A341-8F7B-492B-AE4DC305DCF837AD.html (1428 words)

	Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Fair Labor Standards Act (29 U.S.C. §§ 201 through 219) was adopted in 1938 to create more jobs by discouraging employers’ use of overtime, to prevent wage exploitation of vulnerable workers and to promote interstate commerce.
		It currently sets minimum wage, overtime pay standards for covered employees, as well as equal pay and child labor standards for all employees.
		The Act’s requirements are enforced by the Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division.
	www.ncsba.org /flsa.htm (121 words)

	Fair Labor Standards Act in a Nutshell
		The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 ("FLSA") was part of the Roosevelt Administration’s effort to restore the American Economy from the ruins of the Great Depression.
		An employee who is covered by the Act is entitled to be paid in cash and in a timely manner (within the pay period) for his or her overtime hours.
		Congress may change the FLSA in years to come to make comp time an option for private employers but as things stand it is against the law for private employers to substitute time off for cash payments for overtime.
	www.vt-law.org /flsa_law.htm (1361 words)

	Office of Compliance: Your Rights - Fair Labor Standards
		These rights and protections require payment of the minimum wage and overtime compensation to nonexempt employees, place restrictions on child labor, and prohibit sex discrimination in wages paid to men and women.
		The CAA provides that interns, as defined in Office of Compliance Regulations, are not covered by the Fair Labor Standards provisions of the CAA.
		The FLSA sets basic minimum wage and overtime pay standards, but there are many employment practices it does not regulate.
	www.compliance.gov /employeerights/er_fairlabor.html (342 words)

	Child Labor Requirements In Agriculture Under The Fair Labor Standards Act (Child Labor Bulletin No. 102) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It is important to note that the child labor provisions of the Act apply to the agricultural employment of all children, migrant as well as local resident children.
		The Act was amended, effective May 1, 1974, authorizing (in section 16(e)) the Secretary of Labor to assess a civil money penalty not to exceed $1,000 for each violation of the child labor provisions of the Act or any regulation issued thereunder.
		When a child labor civil money penalty is assessed against an employer, the employer has the right, within 15 days after receipt of the notice of such penalty, to file an exception to the determination that the violation or violations of the child labor provisions occurred.
	www.abe.iastate.edu /safety/clb102.htm (1999 words)

	NIST GSIG: Information on the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		These programs include government contract labor standards statutes, the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act, the Employee Polygraph Protection Act, various so-called "whistleblower" protection laws, and immigration laws which provide certain employment standards and worker protections.
		SA 8000 is designed to be the first auditable international standard for companies seeking to guarantee the basic rights of workers.
		It is based on 12 International Labor Organization (ILO) conventions, the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
	ts.nist.gov /ts/htdocs/210/gsig/flsainfo.htm (679 words)

	SAMPLE: Fair Labor Standards Act
		The Fair Labor Standards Act provides for the establishment of "fair labor standards in employments in and affecting interstate commerce." 29 U.S.C. "Commerce" is defined as "trade, commerce, transportation, transmission, or communication among the several States or between any State and any place outside thereof." 29 U.S.C. §203 (b).
		The Fair Labor Standards Act has been held to be a valid exercise of Congress's power to regulate interstate commerce.
		Under the Portal to Portal Act, 29 U.S.C. §255, the statute of limitations for willful violations of the Walsh-Healey Act, as well as the Fair Labor Standards Act, is three years (two years for non-willful violations).
	www.quojure.com /samples/archives/fairlabor.htm (2855 words)

	An Overview of the Fair Labor Standards Act
		The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended (referred to as "the Act" or "FLSA"), is published in law in sections 201-219 of title 29, United States Code.
		The Act provides for minimum standards for both wages and overtime entitlement, and spells out administrative procedures by which covered worktime must be compensated.
		Section 3(e)(2) of the Act authorizes the provisions of the Act to be applied any person employed by the Government of the United States, as specified in that section.
	www.opm.gov /flsa/overview.asp (268 words)

	FLSA Fair Labor Standards Act Law & Legal Information
		The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is a federal labor law that applies to all fifty of the United States of America.
		The purpose of the Fair Labor Standards Act is to give employees rights and ensure impartial treatment.
		Although the Fair Labor Standards Act exists to aid all workers, the language of the law is mired in legal jargon and difficult to understand terminology.
	www.kerrysteigerwalt.com /public/flsa (277 words)

	Fair Labor Standards Act revisions don't pay \| EPI Economic Snapshots
		Currently, the FLSA requires overtime pay for more than 40 hours per week of work, sets minimum wages, and prohibits child labor.
		The Department of Labor has recently proposed regulations that, by changing the overtime rules, will reduce the pay of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of workers who earn above $425 a week (or $22,100 a year).
		The Department of Labor estimates that the costs of the new legislation to businesses will be between $870.3 million and $1.576 billion.
	www.epinet.org /content.cfm/webfeatures_snapshots_archive_04022003 (475 words)

	NYU > Human Resources > Fair Labor Standards Act
		Administration and enforcement of the FLSA is the responsibility of the Department of Labor (DOL).
		Employees are considered exempt or not exempt from the overtime pay provision of the FLSA based on the responsibilities of their jobs.
		They are paid for each hour they work, and must be paid 1½ times their hourly rate for each hour worked in excess of 40 hours* in a workweek or be given an equal amount of compensatory time off within the same week.
	www.nyu.edu /hr/policies/hrmcmp04.html (764 words)

	Fair Labor Standards Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Most employers' pay practices are governed by The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which was enacted in 1938.
		Generally, under the FLSA, all employees must be paid a rate of time and one half of their regular rate of pay for all hours worked in excess of forty (40) in a workweek.
		Originally, the FLSA stated that the computer related employee must be paid at a rate of six and one half times the minimum wage to qualify.
	www.topechelon.com /employers/contracting_flsaoverview.htm (588 words)

	STW and the Fair Labor Standards Act: A Guide
		FLSA specifies particular limits on the employment of minors under the age of 18.
		Once it is determined that there is an employment relationship that is covered by FLSA, then certain standards and limitations apply to the employment of STW students, according to their age.
		This guide on work-based learning and the Fair Labor Standards Act is designed to serve employers, educators, agency placement staff, labor organizations and all those involved in School-to-Work initiatives by helping them to understand a variety of issues related to students in the workplace.
	www.state.vt.us /stw/FLSASTW.html (4785 words)

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