Under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, employees must be paid time-and-a-half overtime for time worked in excess of forty hours in a workweek unless they are exempt. This Depression-era law can be a source of tension in today's workplace. The rules governing who is exempt are often difficult to apply, even though many employees who would prefer not to be tied to a time clock do not fit neatly within them.
The Association favors revamping the wage and hour laws to match today's workplace.