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Mininum Wage Coverage

More than 130 million American workers are protected (or "covered") by the Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA ) for their minimum wage. Employees can be covered by the law in two ways:

  • Enterprise Coverage
    • if you work for a business or organisations or enterprise which has at least two employees, and that has an annual dollar volume of sales or business done of at least $500,000.
    • if you work in a hospital, businesses providing medical or nursing care for residents, school or preschool, or government agency.
  • Individual Coverage
    • if your work regularly involve you in commerce between States ("interstate commerce"). Individuals are coverer if they are "engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce" - for example a secretary typing letters in an office - that will be sent out of state, regularly make telephone calls to persons located in other States, handle records of interstate transactions, travel to other States on their jobs, and do janitorial work in buildings where goods are produced for shipment outside the State.
    • if you are a domestic service worker - housekeeper, full-time babysitter, or a cook.
    Source Minimum Wage Coverage
Who makes sure workers are paid the minimum wage?

The Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor is responsible for enforcing the minimum wage. If you have questions about your minimum wage, you can call the nearest office of the Wage and Hour Division.
US Minimum Wage Exemptions

The Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA) gives a list of the more commonly used exemptions for Minimum Wage coverage - you find this list in the next link: Minimum Wage Exemptions under the FLSA. You find more state specific exemptions if you click on the state links - under construction - below:

 Alabama 
  Hawaii
  Michigan  N.Carolina 
  Utah 
 Alaska 
  Idaho
  Minnesota  N. Dakota
  Vermont
 Arizona
  Illinois
  Mississippi  Ohio
  Virginia
 Arkansas 
  Indiana
  Montana  Oklahoma
  Washington 
 California
  Iowa
  Missouri  Oregon
  West Virginia 
 Colorado
  Kansas
  Nebraska  Pennsylvania 
  Wisconsin
 Connecticut 
  Kentucky
  Nevada  Rhode Island
  Wyoming
 Delaware
  Louisiana
  New Hampshire  S. Carolina
 D. of Columbia 
  Maine
  New Jersey  S. Dakota
 Florida
  Maryland
  New Mexico  Tennessee
Georgia
  Massachusetts  New York
  Texas

Source Minimum Wage Exemptions
Double Check Exemptions!

Some employees are exempt from the minimum wage of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), but checking the list of exemptions below isn't always enough to be sure if employees duties are exempt or not.

To be sure if duties are exempt employers and employees should always check the exact terms and conditions of an exemption in light of the employee's actual duties before assuming that the exemption might apply to the employee. The ultimate burden of supporting the actual application of an exemption rests on the employer.

Exemptions are typically applied on an individual workweek basis. Employees performing exempt and non-exempt duties in the same workweek are normally not exempt in that workweek.


Source Minimum Wage Exemptions
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