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Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Working Examples
RATE OF PAY QUESTIONS
HOURS WORKED QUESTIONS
COMPENSATORY TIME (COMP TIME)
RATE OF PAY QUESTIONS
- QUESTION: Ralphina works as a custodian for Housing. She is non-exempt
and works 40 hours per week. Her monthly salary is $1449 per month.
- What does Ralphina earn each hour? $1449/173.33 hours = $8.36/hour
- What does she make in a week? $1449 /4 weeks = $362.25/week
- What does she earn if she works 4-10 hours shifts? $362.25/week or $1449/month
- One week Ralphina works 4 hours over her standard 40 hours. If
she receives overtime pay, what are her earnings for the week? $362.25 standard pay + $50.16 in overtime pay ($8.36/hour x 1.5 (time and a half) x 4 hours = $50.16) = $412.41
- QUESTION: Ralphie receives $9.00 per hour plus a $1.00 shift
differential. What is Ralphie's regular rate of pay? $10/hour
- QUESTION: Ralphie is an Accountant I in the Bursar's Office.
Ralphie is non-exempt and earns $3636 per month.
- What does Ralphie earn each hour? $3636 /173.33 hours = $20.98/hour
per hour
- What does he make in a week? $3636 /4 weeks = $909/week
- What does he earn if he works 4-10 hours shifts? $909/week or $3636/month
- One week Ralphie works 8 hours over his standard 40 hours. If
he receives overtime pay, what are his earnings for the week?
$909 in standard pay + $251.76 in overtime pay ($20.98/hour x 1.5 (time and a half) x 8 hours = $251.76) = $1160.76
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HOURS WORKED QUESTIONS
- QUESTION: Ralphina is a trainer
for the Athletic Department. She is required to travel with the team
to away games. She was asked to travel to Fort Collins for the CU-CSU
game. The trip to Fort Collins takes an hour and a half. Are the 1 ½
hours Ralphina drove included as work hours? Yes
- QUESTION: Ralphie lives in Broomfield and drives 45 minutes
to Boulder for work. Is Ralphie's commuting time included as work hours?
No
- QUESTION: Ralphie is an IT Technician for ITS. As a part of
his job, he is required to attend 3 hour monthly training sessions to
keep up with new technologies. Are the hours he is in training included
in his hours worked? Yes
- QUESTION:Ralphina is a groundskeeper at CU. While she is mowing
a lawn, she twists her ankle. Her supervisor drives her to Wardenburg
to receive medical attention for her ankle. She spends two hours at
Wardenburg and her ankle is miraculously cured.
- Should the two hours count as work hours for Ralphina?
Yes
- Should the 30 minutes the supervisor spent helping Ralphina be
included in the supervisor's work hours? Yes
- QUESTION:Ralphie is a Library Tech in Norlin. He picks up the
flu virus over a weekend and takes two days, or 16 hours, of sick time.
Is the sick time included in Ralphie's work hours? No
- QUESTION:Ralphina is an Accounting Technician in Parking Services.
After a particularly bad week of people complaining about their parking
tickets, Ralphina needs to take a vacation. She takes Monday off to
recuperate and then returns to work on Tuesday. She works 36 hours from
Tuesday through Friday. What are Ralphina's hours worked? 36
hours. No overtime because vacation hours are not included in hours
worked for non-essential employees.
- QUESTION:The following month there is a holiday on a Monday.
Ralphina, the Accounting Technician in Parking Services, is called in
to work for 4 hours on the holiday and then works her regular schedule
of 8 hours on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
- Is she due overtime? If so, how much? No.
Holiday hours don't count as hours worked for non-essential employees.
She only worked 36 hours.
- If she works 8 hours on Saturday as well, is she due overtime?
If so, how much? Yes.
She worked a total of 44 hours. So she would receive overtime compensation
for the 4 hours over 40.
- If Ralphina is an essential employee, is she due overtime in situation
b? If so, how much? Yes, if she is an essential
employee, then holidays (paid leave) count as hours worked. So,
she has 8 hours of holiday pay, plus 4 hours worked on the holiday,
plus 40 hours for Tuesday - Saturday. Total of 52 hours worked with
12 hours at overtime rate.
- QUESTION: Which of the following are hours worked?
- Waiting for the copier to be repaired Yes
- Fueling CU trucks to make deliveries Yes
- Bringing office mail to the Post Office Yes
- Commuting to work No
- Driving to East Campus for a meeting Yes
- Making a deposit at a bank for work after hours Yes
- Cleaning equipment Yes
- Changing into security guard uniform Yes
- Changing into older clothes to protect newer ones No
- QUESTION: Ralphina is a Laboratory Technician in the Bacteria
Lab in Biochemistry. Each day before and after work, she has to dress
in biohazard gear. At the end of her shift, she has to take off the
biohazard gear, rinse it in an antibacterial solution and then shower
herself in a similar solution. In all, these activities take about an
hour's time. Should this hour be included in Ralphina's hours worked?
Yes
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COMPENSATORY TIME (COMP TIME)
- QUESTION: Ralphie also works in the Bursar's office and
has to work overtime for the first two weeks of the semester. One week,
he works 43 hours. The second week he works a total of 44 hours. How
much compensatory time does Ralphie have at the end of the two weeks? 7 hours of overtime at the rate of 1.5 = 10.5 hours
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