Instructions: Highlight your answer to each question below. The Fair Labor Stand
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Instructions: Highlight your answer to each question below.
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) establishes the federal minimum wage, maximum hours of work, overtime pay, and regulates child labor.
a. True
b. False
Under the Equal Pay Act, there must be more than one person discriminated against before it is a true violation under the law.
a. True
b. False
Instructions: Type your answers below.
List the 5 duties an employer has to their non-exempt employees:
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Instructions: See the Chapter Questions at the end of the chapter starting on page 455. Answer questions 2, 3, and 11. Number each of your answers.
2. Employees of a county public works department used county-owned vehicles to travel to job sites where they inspected the work of subcontractors. The vehicles contained the tools and equipment the employees used on the job and served as their offices at the job sites. The employees were not allowed to drive the vehicles to their homes at the end of the day. Instead, they were required to bring them back to secure county-owned parking areas, where they also retrieved their own private vehicles. The employees were not paid for the time spent traveling from the remote parking areas to their first job site of the day. Nor were they compensated for the time spent bringing the vehicles back to the parking areas from their last job site of the day. Is this travel time compensable under the FLSA? Why or why not?
3. In addition to their normal hours of work, electronic technicians at a power plant were required to remain on call from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. on Monday through Friday and for twenty-four hours on the weekend. While on call, the technicians typically responded to three to five alarms per evening. Each alarm took, on average, about forty-five minutes of work. Technicians were expected to respond to alarms within fifteen minutes. Failure to respond was grounds for discipline. The technicians were given pagers, but these did not work properly, forcing the technicians to remain at or near home. The technicians were paid for the time they spent responding to problems, but not for the remainder of the on-call time. The technicians sued for unpaid overtime. What should the court decide? Why?
11. A human resource manager earned an annual salary of $41,548. She was promoted to a different position paying $45,600. Her replacement, a male, was hired from outside the company at $62,500. The company explained that the higher pay was because the male was the most qualified candidate available for the job and he had demanded a higher salary. The woman sued for pay discrimination under the Equal Pay Act. What should the court decide? Why?
Explanation / Answer
1) The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) establishes the federal minimum wage, maximum hours of work, overtime pay, and regulates child labor - TRUE
Explanation: The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is a United States labor law that creates the right to a minimum wage, and "time-and-a-half" overtime pay when people work over forty hours a week. It also prohibited most employment of minors in "oppressive child labor".
2) Under the Equal Pay Act, there must be more than one person discriminated against before it is a true violation under the law - FALSE
Discriminating against one person is sufficient for a true violation under the law.
3) Duties an employer has towards their non-exempt employees :