LABOUR LAW SUMMARY NOTES AND
QUESTIONS EXAMPREP 2026 TEST BANK
AND PRACTICE SOLUTION
⩥ Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Answer: Extended wage-hour
requirements to cover all employers engaged in interstate commerce or
in producing goods for interstate commerce.
⩥ Oppressive child labor. Answer: The FLSA prohibits oppressive child
labor.
⩥ Child labor restrictions for under fourteen. Answer: Children under
fourteen years of age are restricted on how many hours per day and per
week they can work, and they are allowed to do only certain types of
work.
⩥ Allowed work for children under fourteen. Answer: Children under
fourteen may deliver newspapers, work for their parents, or be employed
in entertainment and, with some exceptions, agriculture.
⩥ Child labor for ages fourteen and fifteen. Answer: Children aged
fourteen and fifteen are allowed to work, but not in hazardous
occupations, and they are also restricted on how many hours per day and
per week they can work.
,⩥ Working times for ages 16-18. Answer: Persons between the ages of
sixteen and eighteen cannot be employed in hazardous jobs.
⩥ Minimum wage. Answer: The lowest wage, either by government
regulation or by union contract, that an employer may pay an hourly
worker.
⩥ State minimum wages. Answer: More than half of the states have set
their minimum wages above the federal minimum wage.
⩥ Tip credit. Answer: The FLSA gives employers a tip credit toward the
minimum wage amount, allowing them to pay only $2.13 an hour in
direct wages if that amount, plus tips, equals at least the federal
minimum wage.
⩥ Employer's obligation for tips. Answer: If an employee's tips and
direct wages do not equal the federal minimum wage, the employer must
make up the difference.
⩥ State laws on tips. Answer: Some states have enacted laws to prevent
employers from including tips in the minimum wage, requiring tipped
workers to receive the regular minimum wage.
,⩥ Tip-sharing regulations. Answer: When service employees are paid
the full minimum wage and take no tip credit, employees who are not
tipped can participate in a tip pool.
⩥ Mandatory tip pool distribution. Answer: An employer that collects
tips to create a mandatory tip pool must fully distribute the tips within
the pay period.
⩥ Retention of tips. Answer: An employer cannot keep employees' tips
under any circumstances.
⩥ Managers and tips. Answer: Managers and supervisors may not keep
tips received by employees, including through tip pools.
⩥ Overtime pay requirement. Answer: Any employee who works more
than forty hours per week must be paid no less than 1.5 times their
regular pay for hours worked over forty.
⩥ Overtime provisions application. Answer: The FLSA overtime
provisions apply only after an employee has worked more than forty
hours per week.
⩥ Four ten hour days. Answer: Working four ten hour days does not
result in overtime.
, ⩥ Exempt employees. Answer: Certain employees, including executive,
administrative, professional employees, outside salespersons, and those
who create computer code, are exempt from the FLSA's overtime
provisions.
⩥ Ineligible for overtime pay. Answer: Workers who make more than a
specified amount are not eligible for overtime pay under the FLSA.
⩥ Voluntary overtime payment. Answer: An employer can voluntarily
pay overtime to ineligible employees but cannot waive or reduce the
overtime requirement of the FLSA.
⩥ State and federal wage laws. Answer: State legislation may include
rules that impact federal wage and overtime laws.
⩥ WARN Act applicability. Answer: The Worker Adjustment and
Retraining Notification (WARN) Act applies to employers with at least
one hundred full-time employees.
⩥ WARN Act notice requirement. Answer: The WARN Act requires
these employers to provide sixty days' notice before implementing a
mass layoff or closing a plant that employs more than fifty full-time
workers.
QUESTIONS EXAMPREP 2026 TEST BANK
AND PRACTICE SOLUTION
⩥ Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Answer: Extended wage-hour
requirements to cover all employers engaged in interstate commerce or
in producing goods for interstate commerce.
⩥ Oppressive child labor. Answer: The FLSA prohibits oppressive child
labor.
⩥ Child labor restrictions for under fourteen. Answer: Children under
fourteen years of age are restricted on how many hours per day and per
week they can work, and they are allowed to do only certain types of
work.
⩥ Allowed work for children under fourteen. Answer: Children under
fourteen may deliver newspapers, work for their parents, or be employed
in entertainment and, with some exceptions, agriculture.
⩥ Child labor for ages fourteen and fifteen. Answer: Children aged
fourteen and fifteen are allowed to work, but not in hazardous
occupations, and they are also restricted on how many hours per day and
per week they can work.
,⩥ Working times for ages 16-18. Answer: Persons between the ages of
sixteen and eighteen cannot be employed in hazardous jobs.
⩥ Minimum wage. Answer: The lowest wage, either by government
regulation or by union contract, that an employer may pay an hourly
worker.
⩥ State minimum wages. Answer: More than half of the states have set
their minimum wages above the federal minimum wage.
⩥ Tip credit. Answer: The FLSA gives employers a tip credit toward the
minimum wage amount, allowing them to pay only $2.13 an hour in
direct wages if that amount, plus tips, equals at least the federal
minimum wage.
⩥ Employer's obligation for tips. Answer: If an employee's tips and
direct wages do not equal the federal minimum wage, the employer must
make up the difference.
⩥ State laws on tips. Answer: Some states have enacted laws to prevent
employers from including tips in the minimum wage, requiring tipped
workers to receive the regular minimum wage.
,⩥ Tip-sharing regulations. Answer: When service employees are paid
the full minimum wage and take no tip credit, employees who are not
tipped can participate in a tip pool.
⩥ Mandatory tip pool distribution. Answer: An employer that collects
tips to create a mandatory tip pool must fully distribute the tips within
the pay period.
⩥ Retention of tips. Answer: An employer cannot keep employees' tips
under any circumstances.
⩥ Managers and tips. Answer: Managers and supervisors may not keep
tips received by employees, including through tip pools.
⩥ Overtime pay requirement. Answer: Any employee who works more
than forty hours per week must be paid no less than 1.5 times their
regular pay for hours worked over forty.
⩥ Overtime provisions application. Answer: The FLSA overtime
provisions apply only after an employee has worked more than forty
hours per week.
⩥ Four ten hour days. Answer: Working four ten hour days does not
result in overtime.
, ⩥ Exempt employees. Answer: Certain employees, including executive,
administrative, professional employees, outside salespersons, and those
who create computer code, are exempt from the FLSA's overtime
provisions.
⩥ Ineligible for overtime pay. Answer: Workers who make more than a
specified amount are not eligible for overtime pay under the FLSA.
⩥ Voluntary overtime payment. Answer: An employer can voluntarily
pay overtime to ineligible employees but cannot waive or reduce the
overtime requirement of the FLSA.
⩥ State and federal wage laws. Answer: State legislation may include
rules that impact federal wage and overtime laws.
⩥ WARN Act applicability. Answer: The Worker Adjustment and
Retraining Notification (WARN) Act applies to employers with at least
one hundred full-time employees.
⩥ WARN Act notice requirement. Answer: The WARN Act requires
these employers to provide sixty days' notice before implementing a
mass layoff or closing a plant that employs more than fifty full-time
workers.
