Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)

FLSA stands for the Fair Labor Standards Act – the federal law that establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and child labor standards for full-time and part-time workers in the private sector and in federal, state, and local governments.

Nearly all employees are covered under the FLSA. Along with most state laws, the Act simply defines an employee as someone who is "employed by an employer."

FLSA violations commonly involve failing to record all hours worked and wrongly classifying employees as exempt from overtime.