17.303: Wage and Hour Standards

17.303

Inactive

Wage and Hour Division (WHD) [DOL]

Aug. 26, 2016

Aug. 23, 2010

To provide standards protecting wages of working persons by requiring a minimum hourly wage rate and overtime pay; or prevailing hourly wage rates, fringe benefits and overtime pay under the Government Contract Acts. Additional standards apply to child labor; to wage payment standards for professional performers and related or supporting professional employees of productions assisted by grants from the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities; to curtail employer use of lie detector tests, including polygraph tests for pre-employment screening or during the course of employment; to enforce standards to protect the terms and conditions of employment for migrant and seasonal agricultural workers; to enforce provisions requiring the provision of potable drinking water, handwashing and toilet facilities; to enforce contractual obligations regarding wages and other working conditions between certain temporary, alien agricultural workers (H-2A) and their employers; to enforce worker protection provisions applicable to nonimmigrant workers in specialty occupations (H-1B), foreign workers as registered nurses in health professional shortage areas (H-1C), nonagricultural labor or services of temporary or seasonal nature (H-2B), and foreign crew members performing longshore work; to require private employers with 50 or more employees and all schools and public employers to provide eligible employees up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave, job restoration, and continued employer provided health insurance due to the employee's serious health condition, the birth of or placement for adoption/foster care of a child, for the care of a child, spouse or parent with a serious health condition or for any qualifying exigency arising out of the fact that the employee's spouse, son, daughter, or parent is on active military duty, or has been notified of an impending call or order to active military duty in support of a contingency operation (provided the active duty relates to a military member of the National Guard or Reserves), or require these same employers to provide up to 26 weeks of unpaid leave, job restoration, and continued employer provided health insurance to an eligible employee who is a spouse, son, daughter, parent, or next of kin of a covered service member with a serious injury or illness.

Z - Salaries and Expenses

Any covered employee, unless specifically exempt, is entitled to be paid in accordance with applicable monetary standards in the United States, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, Wake Island, Johnston Island, and the Outer Continental Shelf Lands defined in the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. (Geographic application varies under the respective statutes and eligibility is dependent upon specific statutory language.) For family and medical leave, coverage includes any employer with 50 or more employees but excludes any employer at a worksite with fewer than 50 employees within a 75-mile radius.

Employees.

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