Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, covered employers must pay non-exempt employees overtime wages for hours worked in excess of forty in a workweek. To comply, while employers must define the workweek, they retain the flexibility to do so as they see fit, as demonstrated by venerable Brooklyn-based federal Judge Jack Weinstein in a new
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Fifth Circuit Confirms Employer’s Right To Set Workweek For Payroll Purposes
By Noel P. Tripp on
Employees may have an understanding of their own “work week” for various employment purposes based on different business practices or employer scheduling. However, with respect to calculating hours worked for purposes of determining overtime pay under the FLSA, DOL regulations simply require that an employer designate and use a standard work week for a given…