Pay Deduction Quiz: Aprons for the hardworking cook.

A cook earns $10.00 per hour and works 45 hours in the workweek. Therefore the cook will have wages of $400.00 in regular pay and $75.00 in overtime pay. The employer reasons that the cook earns well above minimum wage and decides to deduct $5.00 from the cook's weekly paycheck for a replacement apron and hat although the cook has not agreed in advance to the deduction.

Have you violated any FLSA requirements?

Probably. Note that the deductions may not cut into any pay for overtime hours. Deductions made during weeks when overtime is worked will be particularly scrutinized to ensure that the employer is not attempting to evade the overtime requirements of the FLSA.

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