The United States has federal regulations on wages, overtime, and child
labor protections. The legislation is called the Fair Labor Standards
Act or FLSA, which establishes federal minimum wage, overtime pay,
recordkeeping, and youth employment standards. The FLSA covers employees
and enterprises engaged in interstate commerce. Specifically, employees
may travel to other states for work, make phone calls or send emails to
persons in other states, or handle records that are involved in
interstate transactions. If a business has annual sales or business done
of at least $500,000, the enterprise is covered by the law. Regardless
of the dollar volume of business, the act applies to hospitals;
institutions primarily engaged in the care of the sick, aged, mentally
ill, or disabled who reside on the premises, schools for children who
are mentally or physically disabled or gifted; federal, state, and local
governments; and preschools, elementary and secondary schools, and
institutions of higher education. In this course, you will learn about
the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the requirements necessary to be
in compliance.
