
The FLSA requires that employers
pay their workers for every hour they're on the job. However, the Department of
Labor, which administers the law, recognizes that it's impractical to count
every individual minute of work time or to require that employees start and
stop working on exact increments. As a result, the regulations allow for
rounding as long as it is done neutrally or favors the employee. In other
words, the employer must round up and also round down.