The Law of the Time Clock

By MIRIAM J. MCKENDALL and DAVID J. SANTEUSANIO

Last August the U.S. Department of Labor put into effect revisions to the Fair Labor Standards Act regulations. The act mandates that covered employees must be paid at least the federal minimum wage for each hour worked, along with overtime pay at the rate of one and one-half times their regular pay for every hour over 40 hours that they...