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FLSA, in plain English.
The Fair Labor Standards Act is the US federal law setting minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and child labour standards. Its best-known rule requires overtime at one and a half times the regular rate for hours worked beyond 40 in a workweek for non-exempt employees. Exempt status depends on salary level and job duties, not job title. Workzoom tracks hours against the workweek so overtime is calculated from actual time, not estimates.
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How FLSA works.
FLSA overtime is calculated on a fixed, recurring workweek of 168 hours, and that workweek does not have to match a pay period. An employer paying semi-monthly still owes overtime by workweek, which is why the two calendars have to be tracked separately. The regular rate is also not simply base hourly pay: non-discretionary bonuses and shift differentials get folded in, which raises the overtime rate above a naive time-and-a-half on base. State law can be stricter than federal, and where it is, the stricter rule applies.
Where FLSA goes wrong.
- Classifying someone as exempt because they are salaried is the classic and expensive mistake.
- Exemption requires meeting both a salary threshold and a duties test, and a job title carries no weight.
- The second trap is averaging hours across two weeks of a biweekly pay period to avoid overtime, which is not permitted. Each workweek stands on its own.
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How FLSA runs on Workzoom.
FLSA is part of the Workzoom Workforce Suite. Workzoom runs HR, workforce, and talent on a single employee record across ten countries: Canada, the United States, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, and the United Kingdom. Full gross-to-net payroll runs live in Canada, the United States, and the Bahamas. Pricing starts at $4 per employee per suite per month.
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