Fair Labor Standards Act Poster Notices
Every employer covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) must display FLSA poster notices in the workplace, which explain employees’ rights under the law. These notices must be posted in a conspicuous place to permit employees to readily read them. Most employers place them in break rooms.
Recently, while doing research for a client who was not paid her overtime, we found a plethora of scummy websites selling these posters to gullible business owners. However, the Department of Labor creates the poster, which thanks to our tax dollars, is free. These websites are literally taking something that is widely available for free and selling it to moronic business owners.
How can these websites do this? People typically only click the top links. These websites are able to outrank the Department of Labor’s website so that their sites appear higher in search engines.
Take it from a millennial, when doing any online research you should always check a few sites deeper in the search results, as well as, the top ones. Hopefully this blog post, which links to the totally free posters created by the government, will outrank those sites, beating them at their own game.
For example, if an employer has employees subject to the FLSA’s minimum wage provisions, that employer must post, and keep posted, a notice explaining the FLSA’s minimum wage provisions.
The FLSA minimum wage poster is available on the Department of Labor’s website, which states, “The content of this notice is prescribed by the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor. An approved copy of the minimum wage poster is made available for informational purposes or for employers to use as posters.”