Category: Overtime and Unpaid Wages

Your Rights Under the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) FLSA Overtime The FLSA requires that covered “nonexempt employees” must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 per workweek at a rate not less than one and one-half times the regular rate of pay. What Is a Workweek? The […]

In a major (and surprise) ruling, a federal judge in Texas has issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Department of Labor’s new overtime rule scheduled to go into effect on December 1, 2016. The new rule would have increased the minimum annual salary requirements for exempt employees will from $455 per […]

About the Fair Labor Standards Act Wage and Hour Laws The Fair Labor Standards Act was enacted more than 75 years ago to establish workplace hours, wages and child labor standards in the United States. The FLSA sets the federal minimum wage, which is updated periodically by legislative action, and […]