Overtime Ins and Outs:
How to Comply with the FLSA ― 2^nd Edition

Julie Athey, Attorney

New and alarming trends are changing the way you manage your workforce and demanding your attention. These trends are too complex and critical to cover fully in a monthly newsletter. That's why we created HR Executive Special Reports.

About the Report
During the 2008 fiscal year, the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor concluded 24,500 FLSA investigations and recovered a total of $140.2 million in minimum wage and overtime back wages. And now the DOL is preparing to hire 300 investigators to pursue wage & hour enforcement.

Employers can no longer afford overtime and wage blunders. Learn your overtime obligations under the Fair Labor Standards Act with the all-new HR Executive Special Report: Overtime Ins and Outs: How to Comply with the FLSA.

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Table of Contents:

1. WHAT EMPLOYERS ARE SUBJECT TO THE FLSA?
Private Employers
Public Agencies
Individual Liability
Joint Employers
Successor Companies

2. WHO IS AN EMPLOYEE?
Independent Contractors
Unpaid Workers

3. HOW ARE THE OVERTIME EXEMPTIONS APPLIED?
General Principles
Specific White-Collar Exemptions
Outside Sales Employees
Other Exemptions

4. THE SALARY BASIS TEST
Employee Absences
Safety Violations
Disciplinary Suspensions
Effect of Improper Pay Deductions
Disciplining Exempt Employees for Absenteeism

5. CALCULATING OVERTIME FOR NONEXEMPT EMPLOYEES
What Is a Workweek?
Calculating Hours Worked
Calculating the Regular Rate
Calculating Overtime

6. CAN YOU REFUSE TO PAY OVERTIME?
Unauthorized Overtime
Compensatory Time
Waiver or Contracting Out of Overtime Obligations
Statute of Limitations