Understanding the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Help supervisors recognize FMLA situations, respond appropriately, and know when to involve HR.
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.
Prepare managers to recognize wage & hour concerns and support accurate pay, consistent practices, and organizational compliance.
in FLSA back wages recovered by the U.S. Department of Labor in FY2025
of back wages recovered arose from overtime violations
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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.
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.
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.
Shinyera Johnson
Legal Professional
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.
SHIFT’s training is designed around the wage and hour decisions managers actually encounter in the workplace.
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.