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Understanding Wage & Hour Compliance (FLSA)

Your managers make wage & hour decisions every day. Do they recognize them?

Schedules, breaks, after-hours requests, changing job duties, and timekeeping can feel routine, but the decisions managers make around them can have implications for employee pay and compliance.

SHIFT goes beyond explaining FLSA rules. Managers practice recognizing wage and hour concerns in everyday situations, responding appropriately, and knowing when to involve the right people.

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Manager reviewing schedule and timekeeping with her team.

Audience

Supervisors and managers

Format

Self-paced, scenario-based online training

Compliance scope

Aligns with federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)

Duration

15 minutes

Small manager decisions can create bigger compliance problems.

Prepare managers to recognize wage & hour concerns and support accurate pay, consistent practices, and organizational compliance.

 

$184.4M

in FLSA back wages recovered by the U.S. Department of Labor in FY2025

79%

of back wages recovered arose from overtime violations

$10M+

in back wages recovered for tip-related violations

The earlier your managers recognize a potential wage and hour concern, the better positioned your organization is to address it before it becomes a bigger problem. Understanding Wage & Hour Compliance (FLSA) builds that recognition and judgment.

 

Managers are already making wage & hour decisions. The question is whether they recognize them.

Course overview

Understanding Wage & Hour Compliance (FLSA) helps your managers recognize the wage and hour implications that can be hidden inside everyday workplace situations.

Through realistic scenarios, learners explore work time, overtime, breaks, recordkeeping, employee classification, work performed by employees under 18, and common pay and timekeeping concerns.

Managers practice recognizing issues involving pre- and post-shift work, remote and after-hours work, required meetings and training, travel between work locations, interrupted meal periods, changing job duties, and concerns about recorded time.

The goal isn’t to turn managers into FLSA experts. It’s to help them recognize when something may require more attention and know what to do next.

 

Beyond awareness to action

Recognize when an everyday management situation may have wage & hour implications.

Respond appropriately without making assumptions or trying to resolve the issue independently.

Route concerns to HR, Payroll, Legal, or the appropriate internal resource when additional review is needed.

Managers don’t experience workplace issues in legal categories. They experience a request, a conversation, a scheduling problem, or a question from an employee.

This course gives them practice making the right next move when one of those ordinary moments carries more risk than it first appears.

Key learner takeaways

This training builds the ability to:

  • Recognize when everyday management decisions may have wage & hour implications
  • Identify work that may count as compensable time, including pre- and post-shift, remote, after-hours, meeting, training, and interrupted-break situations
  • Understand the difference between exempt and nonexempt employees and recognize when changes in job duties require review
  • Reinforce accurate timekeeping and respond appropriately to employees concerns about time or pay
  • Recognize when state, local, or organizational requirements may provide additional protections
  • Know when to involve HR, Payroll, Legal, or other appropriate internal resources

SHIFT's training presents complex compliance topics in a clear, relatable way, which makes it easier to retain the information and apply it in real-world scenarios.

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Shinyera Johnson
Legal Professional

Compliance coverage

Supporting FLSA and wage and hour compliance.

The Fair Labor Standards Act establishes federal requirements related to minimum wage, overtime, recordkeeping, and child labor. State and local laws may provide additional protections, and organizational policies and procedures can add further requirements for managers to follow.

Understanding Wage & Hour Compliance (FLSA) supports compliance by helping managers identify situations that may require closer attention and elevate them to the appropriate internal resources. By building awareness at the manager level, organizations can address potential wage & hour concerns earlier, reinforce more consistent practices, and reduce the risk that routine workplace issues develop into larger compliance problems.

Designed to change behavior.

  • Builds the instinct to recognize when a situation needs additional attention
  • Moves beyond definitions with realistic manager-focused workplace scenarios
  • Shows how routine scheduling, workload, and communication decisions can affect compensable work time
  • Builds recognition of work that happens before a shift, after hours, remotely, or during interrupted breaks
  • Helps managers recognize when changing job duties may require review
  • Reinforces accurate timekeeping and appropriate responses to employee pay concerns
  • Gives managers practice navigating situations where the right response may not be immediately obvious
Manager completing a wage & hour training scenario about after-hours work and employee timekeeping.

Course details

Format
Self-paced eLearning with interactive scenarios and reflection points
Duration
15 minutes
Languages
English and Spanish (others available upon request)
Certificate
Instant certificate download
Accessibility
WCAG 2.1 AA compliant, screen-reader compatible, closed captions included
Flexible Delivery Options
SCORM-ready training, deployable via client LMS or hosted by SHIFT
Customization
Branding options and tailoring available, including the ability to add your own policies and guidelines, with updates reviewed to maintain alignment with legal requirements
White Glove Implementation
Dedicated Project Manager
SCORM integration
LMS set-up & admin training
Go-live support and post-launch check-ins

Frequently asked questions to consider when choosing wage and hour training.

This course is designed for managers and supervisors across industries and work environments. It is particularly relevant for anyone who makes decisions about employee schedules, workloads, assignments, breaks, overtime, timekeeping, or job duties.

SHIFT’s course covers the federal FLSA baseline for work time, overtime, recordkeeping, and child labor, along with practical guidance on schedules, breaks, timekeeping, classification questions, changing job duties, and common pay concerns.

Managers don’t need to become FLSA experts. SHIFT’s course focuses on helping them recognize when an everyday workplace situation may have wage & hour implications, respond appropriately, and know when to involve HR, Payroll, Legal, or another appropriate resource.

No. Managers learn how to recognize situations that may raise classification, overtime, or other wage and hour concerns and when to involve HR, payroll, legal, or other appropriate resources. The course does not ask managers to make legal classification decisions or calculate employee pay.

 

Yes. Learners explore situations involving remote work, work performed before or after scheduled shifts, required meetings and training, travel between work locations, and other activities that may count as compensable working time.

SHIFT’s course focuses on the federal FLSA baseline and reinforces that state, local, and organizational requirements may provide additional protections or obligations. It does not provide comprehensive state- or locality-specific wage and hour instruction.

 

See how SHIFT prepares your teams for real workplace decisions.

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