Fair Labor Standards Act: Regulations on Labor Overtime, Child Labor, and Minimum Wages

Human Resource
Management

Introduction
 The Fair Labor Standards Act is a centralized law.
 It contains provisions regarding minimum wages, child labor,
overtime standards and health and safety measures of labor.
 Elora Jean & Co. hires many labor which are regulated through Fair
Labor Standards Act.
 As an Human Resource Manager, this presentation is focused on labor
overtime, child labor, minimum wages and recordkeeping.

Overtime Requirements
 Employee can work overtime with no limit to work.
 Employees would be paid of one and half times according to
regular rate.
 Overtime will be calculated after 40 hours (Lasowski, 2009).
 Exempt employees will not be eligible for overtime.
 A employee should work for 8 hours a day and 40 hours a week.
 Overtime will not be calculated for Holiday, Saturday and Sunday.
Non-
exempt
Default status for
all positions
Eligible for
overtime
Paid for all time
worked
Must be paid at a
rate greater than
or equal to
minimum wages
Receives overtime
pay for any time
worked over 40
hours in a
workweek
Exempt
Exception status
for a position
Not eligible for
overtime
Paid a flat amount
for all time
worked
Must be paid at a
rate greater than
or equal to the
salary minimum
Status granted
under set criteria,
including job
duties and pay
type and level.

Employees
 There are two categories of exemptions in Fair Labor Standard Act.
 Elora Jean & Co. will make sure that his exempted employees were
actually exempted according to sections 213(a) and 213(b) of FLSA.
 Under FLSA, minimum wage requirement and overtime standard were
applicable on non-exempted employees.
 Non-exempt employees are liable to pay @ $7.25 per hour and those
who were under 20 were liable for $4.25 per hour (Office of financial
management, 2019).