Question

Ashley is an eighteen-year-old clerk in a store that sells bird seed. She earns minimum wage. Her boss, Trina, often expects her to stay and work as many as three hours longer than her scheduled shift. Trina never pays Ashley for these hours. Ashley is:
a. entitled not only to be paid for the additional time, but also to be paid overtime if she works more than forty hours in a week.

b. entitled to be paid overtime for all the time she works beyond her scheduled hours.

c. entitled to be paid minimum wage for the additional hours, and she cannot work more than forty hours in a week.

d. not entitled to be paid for any time she chooses to stay beyond her scheduled hours.

Answer 1

Answer:

A.) Entitled not only to be paid for additional time but also to be paid overtime if she works more than forty hours in a week.  

Explanation:

The Fair Labor standards Act of 1938 is US labour law that deals with the right to minimum wage and overtime pay if people work for over 40 hours in a weeks. It also prohibits organisations from employing the minors . The law is applicable to the employees that are employed by enterprises active in commerce of production.

FLSA was written by senator Hugo Black in 1932 but his proposal could not met with resistance in  1937. A revised version of his proposal was passed in 1938  that accepted forty hour workweek and the labours could earn wages for overtime.  According to its provisions the workers would be paid minimum wage and the overtime pay should be one and a half times the regular pay.  

Franklin D Roosevelt considered this act as one of the most important pieces of New Legislation.