The working week:

It’s a period of 168 hours along 7 recurrent periods of 24 hours per day, it can start any day of the week and any hour of the day according to what the entrepreneur sets. As a general rule regarding payment the minimun wages and the pay for overtime, each week should be counted separately; you can’t do an average of two or more weeks of work.

The protection for the employee under the Law, as well as the cumpliment with the requirements of the payments and the application of the exemptions, are dedterminated based on the working week.”          

 “Worked hours:

The employees under the FLSA Law have to recieve the compensation for all the worked hours along the working week. Generally the “worked hours” do reference of all the time what the employee has to have for being in the company in service for the entrepreneur or any other place of the signal work, In the beginning of the first main activity on the work day to the end of the first activity of the day.

U.S. Department of Labor. (s. f.). Home | U.S. Department of Labor. https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/compliance-assistance/handy-reference-guide-flsa/espanol