What is a "Workweek" and How Can it Be Manipulated to Avoid Paying Overtime?

Employers’ continued struggles with labor costs have led to additional hourly-rate cuts, salary reductions, furloughs, layoffs, and similar conventional measures. But are there other potentially less-disruptive and legal options?

You need to get creative.

An FLSA workweek is a fixed, regularly-recurring period of 168 hours – that is, seven, consecutive, 24-hour periods – that the employer expressly adopts in order to maintain FLSA compliance.

An employer can have multiple "workweeks" for different departments/groups/individual employees based on tendencies and work patterns of various groups and departments. In other words, a "workweek" does not have to be Monday through Sunday.