Pocket Guide to the Fair Labor Standards Act

By Cathleen A. Williams and Edmund K. Brehl
1st edition, 2000

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Written by two experts in the field, this Pocket Guide focuses on the Act's impact in the public sector workplace and explains complicated provisions of the law that have vexed public sector practitioners, like the "salary basis" test and deductions from pay and leave for partial-day absences.

Each chapter tackles a broad topic by providing a detailed discussion of the law's many applications in special workplace environments. For example, the chapter that covers overtime calculation begins by defining regular rate of pay and then considers the payment of bonuses, fluctuating workweeks, and alternative work periods for law enforcement and fire protection employees. Other chapters focus on record keeping requirements, hours of work, and "white collar" exemptions. In each case, detailed footnotes offer an in-depth discussion of the varied applications of the FLSA.

Coauthor Cathleen A. WIlliams is an attorney in private practice in Sacramento. She specializes in FLSA cases on behalf of employees and unions. Coauthor Deak Brehl is labor relations counsel for the California Department of Personnel Administration in Sacramento. The DPA represents state agencies in all aspects of labor law before administrative agencies and in the state and federal courts.