The federal Fair Labor Standards Act encompasses several areas of concern to payroll professionals.

The federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) establishes minimum wage, (including minimum wage and overtime exemptions), overtime pay, recordkeeping, and child labor requirements for full-time and part-time employees in the private sector and in federal, state, and local governments. Since all of these areas affect employee compensation and how payroll is computed and processed, payroll professionals who need to keep abreast of these issues can find good, practical introductions to this material in these knowlegeable Ceridian topic sheets.