“The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) was created in 1938 to establish a minimum wage and a limit on the number of hours that can be worked in a standard workweek. It also provides standards for equal pay, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and child labor. This law was created during a time of great financial and political turmoil. The FLSA is administered and implemented by the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor. “The Wage-Hour Division administers and enforces the FLSA with respect to private employment, state and local government employment, and federal employees of the Library of Congress, the United States Postal Service, and the Postal Rate Commission. The FLSA is enforced by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management for employees of other executive branch agencies and by the U.S. Congress for covered legislative branch employees. "The law generally applies to all employees of specified businesses that have workers engaged in interstate commerce, that produce goods for interstate commerce, or that handle, sell, or otherwise process goods or materials that have been moved or produced for commerce interstate." However, workers who are not covered by the FLSA may still be subject to the minimum wage, overtime pay, registration, and child labor provisions if they are individually engaged in interstate commerce or in the production of goods for interstate commerce, or in any other closely -process or occupation directly essential to such production. The first thing an employer or employee must do is determine whether they are covered by the FLSA. Finding out if you are covered by the FLSA means determining whether your business is a covered entity. If the business isn't... middle of paper... there won't be at least minimum wage. The employer is required to pay the employee overtime pay on the regular payday for the pay period in which the pay was received. An agreement between an employee and an employer does not exclude overtime pay. It is also against FLSA compliance to make an agreement that 8 hours in a 40-hour work week will count as work time. Bibliography "About SHRM". Login. Np, nd Web. October 9, 2014. “Coverage of Building Maintenance Employees Under the Fair Labor Standards Acts of 1938.” The Yale Law Journal 55.2 (1946): 421-28. Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor. Network. October 1, 2014. Pfadenhauer, Diane M. Wage and Hour Law: A Guide to the FAir Labor Standards Act and State Wage and Hour Laws. New York: DataMotion, 2013. Print."Policies." Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Np, nd Web. 09 October. 2014.