Employee Information * Required Fields Coverages the Standard

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The Fair Labor Standards Act applies to most businesses and employees - but not to all. If the law applies to your business or to some of your employees, then you are an employer “covered” by the FLSA. Your business can be covered by this law in three ways. The first and broadest application is called enterprise coverage. You fall under that umbrella if: • Your business takes in at least $500,000 a year in gross sales or total business, and • You have at least two employees who handle goods that have moved in interstate commerce. As long as you have two employees, this second requirement is essentially always met, because it includes use of anything that was made out of state. For example, pens, paper, cleaning supplies, phones, computers, or any other equipment. And, that does not all have to happen at one establishment. You can have: • multiple establishments, • individual related businesses, or even • multiple corporations and the activities of all of them may be looke