The federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires covered employers, including municipalities, to pay most employees at least minimum wage for every hour worked and overtime equal to 1 ½ times the employee’s regular rate of pay for all hours worked over 40 in a work week (or over 53 hours for fire protection employees and 43 hours for law enforcement employees). However, it provides a limited set of exemptions to these minimum standards for certain qualifying employees, referred to as “exempt” employees. The most commonly utilized set of exemptions are referred to as the “whi
