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The federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) provides all sorts of rules and regulations to make sure workers are not mistreated by their employers. Two of the most well-known regulations involve overtime and minimum wage.
The FLSA defines overtime as any time spent working after eight hours a day or forty hours a week. It requires employers to pay all their hourly workers one and one-half times their normal hourly rate for all overtime worked. Continue reading ›