Which Employees Are Exempt from Overtime Regulations?

Every small business owner knows that when it comes to payroll issues, misunderstandings about how much an employee is supposed to receive in their paycheck can lead to big headaches. To make matters

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, record keeping, and child labor standards affecting full-time and part-time workers in the private sector, and in federal, state, and local governments. Covered nonexempt workers are entitled to a minimum wage, and overtime pay is required at a rate of not less than one and one-half times the employee’s regular rate of pay after 40 hours of work in a single work week.

There always seems to be some confusion about what the FLSA requires. The following is a list of items that are NOT required by the FLSA: