Legal Opinion Letter



Legal Opinion Letter

To: Mr. MacLeod

From: Jason Crossin, Attorney at Law

09 April, 2013

RE: Exemptions of Fair Labor Standards Act

Dear Mr. MacLeod,

First of all, I would like to thank you for consulting with me for getting the information pertinent to exemptions of fair labor standards act, wages, hours and provision along with the application of all of this on to the inspectors working outside the United States. Since the fair labor standards act (FLSA) can be expounded as the federal statute of the United States that was enacted in 1938. The law of FLSA attempts to describe the basic standards for the minimum and overtime compensation that fundamentally impacts the employments either the public or the private employment. It entitles the employers to compensate the employees who are not exempted from the act. However, this act is actively implemented by the United States Department of Labor within the divisions of employment standards and wage and hour division (United States Department of Labor, 2013). In this concern, it can be indicated that if the non exempt inspector conducts his duties outside the territory of United States for the whole week then he is said to be exempted from the fair labor standard act for that work week. However, if the inspected conducts the same services but within the territory of United States then he will not be exempted for that whole work week but instead he will be accountable as for being non exempt for that time duration. As the work week can be expounded as the required duration of time of an employee which is a fixed duration and recur regularly in seven consecutive days and twenty four hour time duration. The exemptions are usually applied on the basis of individual work week which indicates the employees are ...