FLSA & The Clock
Under the FLSA the mandatory rate for overtime pay much equal this many times a non-exempt employee's regular rate of pay.
What is 1 1/2 times.
This category of employee must track all hours worked, be paid at least minimum wage, and is eligible for overtime pay.
What is a Non-Exempt employee?
Passed in 1990, this landmark civil rights law prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in employment and public services
What is the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act)?
This public Missouri court database can be cross-referenced by districts alongside state and FBI fingerprint checks to review candidate background records.
What is Case.Net?
Employers who willfully or repeatedly violate minimum wage or overtime requirements face an FLSA penalty of up to this amount for each separate violation.
What is $1,000?
The FLSA defines a standard "workweek" as a fixed, recurring period of this many consecutive days.
What is 7 days, specifically Sunday through Saturday.
To meet the criteria for an exempt status, an employee's classification cannot just be based on their job title, but must be based on salary level, salary basis, and these.
What are job duties?
Regardless of the total number of employees they have on staff, these specific local organizations are automatically considered covered employers under the FMLA.
What are local educational agencies (or public school boards/schools)?
School districts must immediately remove individual accounts from the state and federal RAP BACK system following this specific employee action.
What is termination of employment?
To comply with federal and state documentation standards, districts are legally required to display these in an accessible area for employees.
What are Labor Law Posters?
True or False: If a non-exempt employee is answering phones or working through their designated 30-minute lunch break, the entire meal period much be paid.
What is true?
Under the standard FLSA salary level test mentioned in the slides, an exempt employee must earn at least this minimum amount per week.
What is $684 per week (or $35,568 annually)?
To be individually eligible for FMLA leave, an employee must have worked for a covered employer for at least 12 months and completed this many hours of service during that timeframe.
What is 1,250 hours?
According to the final steps of the district's job offer process, a salary offer is never fully finalized until the district receives official verification of employment from previous employers. This is because candidates often have an inaccurate count of this specific metric, which directly impacts their placement on the salary schedule.
What are Years of Service (or experience)?
In school district policy coding, Board Policy GBL governs this critical administrative tracking area.
What are Personnel Records?
If a non-exempt employee earns $20/hour and works 48 hours in a single workweek, this is the total gross pay they should receive before deductions.
What is $1,040? (40 hours x $20 = $800, plus 8 hours x $30 overtime rate +$240)
According to the DOL exemption criteria, an employee who manages a department and directly supervises two or more employees falls under this specific duties test category.
What is the Executive exemption?
Under the ADA, a disability is defined as a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of these.
What are major life activities?
This statutory rule requires a mandatory disclosure from candidates regarding previous employment history prior to a school district issuing a formal job offer.
What is Missouri Revised Statute 162.068?
This common administrative recordkeeping trap occurs when paper timesheets consistently state an employee worked exactly these identical hour blocks every single day.
What is working "8:00–4:00 exactly every day" (or off-the-clock work)?
A non-exempt school secretary voluntarily stays 30 minutes late every Tuesday to tidy the front office after everyone leaves. They do not report this time on their timesheet because they "just wanted to help out," and their principal never explicitly asked them to do it. Under the FLSA, why must the district still pay the employee for this time?
What is the "Suffer or Permit to Work" rule? (Under the FLSA, if an employer knows or has reason to believe that work is being performed, they must compensate the employee. "Voluntary" work is still compensable time if the supervisor has an opportunity to prevent it from happening).
This exemption category applies to employees who perform office work specifically related to management policies or general business operations.
What is the Administrative exemption?
The ADA requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals unless doing so would cause this to the organization.
What is an undue hardship?
This is the entity that officially approves an applicant for hire.
Who is the Board of Education?
Except in an emergency situation where advance notice is completely impractical, non-exempt employees must obtain this from their supervisor before performing any overtime work.
What is prior approval?