The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)

establishes standards for minimum wage, overtime
pay, record keeping, and underage employment that eliminate full-time and part-time workers in the private sector and in the federal government, as well as in state and local governments.

Covered and non-exempt workers are entitled to a minimum wage of $7.25 per hour effective July 24, 2009. Special provisions apply to workers in American Samoa and the Commonwealth Islands. Northern Mariana. Non-exempt workers must be paid overtime at a rate of at least time-and-a-half their regular rate of pay after 40 hours of work in a
workweek.

The FLSA requires that wage payments due be made on the regular payday that covers
that period. It is illegal to make deductions from wages for insufficient funds or
merchandise, to purchase employer-required uniforms, and for the cost of tools of the
trade, if those deductions reduce the employee’s wages below the minimum rate required by the FLSA or if it reduces the amount of overtime pay due under the FLSA.

The FLSA contains some exceptions to these basic rules. Some apply to specific
businesses, and others to specific jobs.
Although the FLSA sets basic standards for minimum wage, overtime pay, and regulates
the employment of minors, there are certain employment practices that the Act does not
regulate.
For example, the FLSA does not require:
vacation, holiday, termination, or sick pay;
periods to eat or rest, additional payment for working week fines or on holidays; salary increase or fringe benefits; neither notice of dismissal, reason for dismissal, nor
immediate payment of the last salary of dismissed employees.
Any employee of certain businesses that have workers involved in interstate commerce,
in the production of goods for interstate commerce, or engaged in handling, selling, or
otherwise working with products or materials that have moved in interstate commerce or have been produced for such trade by any person, is under the scope of the FLSA.

“Practical Guide Regarding the Fair Labor Standards Act | United States Department of
Labor”, Home | US Department of Labor, https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/complianceassistance/handy-reference-guide-flsa/espanol.