Fair Labor Standards Act

The Fair Labor Standards Act creates overtime pay, minimum wage, and child labor, record keeping, laws that affect full time and part time employees in the private sector as well as in local governments, state governments, and Federal governments.

The Wage and Hour Division enforces the regulations that are created by the Fair Labor Standards Act with regards to private employment, local government employment, state government employment, and Federal employees of the Library of Congress, U.S. Postal Service, Postal Rate Commission, and the Tennessee Valley Authority.

The laws under the Fair Labor Standards Act are different from other laws and can be a bit confusing so you should contact an employment attorney. Under this law, all deductions such as required uniforms, tools of the trade, or other deductions cannot lower a persons minimum wage below the minimum wage established by the Fair Labor Standards Act as well as cannot lower the overtime pay that is due to the employee under the Act.

There are a few things that the Fair Labor Standards Act does not regulate or require such as holiday pay, vacation pay, severance pay, sick pay, meal periods, rest periods, pay raises, fringe benefits or reason for termination to name a few.

If you have questions or believe your rights under the Fair Labor Standards Act have been violated you need to speak with an employment attorney. Your employment attorney will be able to let you know if your employee rights have been violated and the options you have available.