• Real-world, detailed examples that simplify complicated overtime pay, hours worked, and other calculations
• Tips and precautions to help you avoid non-compliance that you can apply immediately
• Insightful discussions of gray and evolving areas so you can intelligently plan for the future
• An easy-access glossary of important wage and hour law terms and phrases
• Fully up-to-date citations to controlling regulations and case law
• And more!

Wage and Hour Answer Book gives you authoritative, plain-English explanations of how- and - when the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and other wage and hour laws govern the employer-employee relationship, and what may happen when violations occur.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction and Overview of the Fair Labor Standards Act and Amendments

2. Determining Coverage Under the Fair Labor Standards Act

3. Minimum Wage Issues

4. White-Collar Exempt Employees

5. Exemptions from Minimum Wage, Overtime Pay, Child Labor, and Record Keeping Obligations

6. Computation of Hours Worked

7. Overtime Pay

8. Employer's Recordkeeping Obligations

9. Child Labor Restrictions Under the FLSA

10. Alternatives for FLSA Compliance

11. Government Contracts

12. Litigation and Defense Issues: Portal to Portal Act

13. Investigations by the Wage and Hour Division

14. Penalties for Violations of the FLSA

15. Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act

Appendix A: General Information and Publications Act

Appendix B: Fair Labor Standards Act

Appendix C: White-Collar Regulation