Question

Showery Drugs is a pharmaceutical company based in Detroit. Showery Drugs expects its employees to work long hours and achieve increased production rates. Employees earn one and a half times the usual hourly rate for working more than 40 hours in one week. Which law is Showery Drugs abiding by in this scenario?
A) laws governing equal employment opportunity
B) Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of minimum wage
C) Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of overtime
D) laws governing prevailing wages
E) product market laws

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer is letter "C": Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of overtime.

Explanation:

The Wage and Hour Division is an agency of the United States Department of Labor in charge of setting the standards for fair working conditions and compensations. When it comes to overtime, a company that requests employees to work more than 40 hours during a workweek must pay the excess of those hours at a rate of one and a half of the regular rate. Thus provision is established in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

Answer 2

Answer:

C) Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of overtime

Explanation:

According to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of overtime, all hours over 40 in a work week must be paid as one and half times the regular rate of pay.

Showery Drugs is clearly applying this practice  when it rightfully pays its employees one and a half times the usual hourly rate for working more than 40 hours in one week.

The answer is C)