The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, provides for minimum standards for both wages and overtime entitlement, and spells out administrative procedures by which covered worktime must be compensated.
The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA), as amended, provides for minimum standards for both wages and overtime entitlement, and spells out administrative procedures by which covered worktime must be compensated. The act exempts specified employees or groups of employees, the "exempt employees," from the application of certain of its provisions. For generations, the FLSA has required employers to pay "nonexempt" workers time-and-a-half for more than 40 hours of work a week.