Pay and Employee Benefits for Flexible Employees

  1. 4 Discuss the pay and employee benefits issues for flexible work schedules, compressed workweeks, and telecommuting arrangements.

The key pay issue for flexible work schedules is overtime pay. The main employee benefits issues are paid time-off benefits and working condition fringe benefits.

Pay

In many cases, “flexible” employees work more than 40 hours during some weeks and fewer hours during other weeks. The FLSA requires that companies compensate nonexempt employees at an overtime rate equal to one and one-half times the normal hourly rate for each hour worked in excess of 40 hours per week. The overtime provisions are based on employees working set hours during fixed work periods. How do ...

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