The Fair Labor Standards Act requires covered employers to pay minimum wages and overtime compensation to certain categories of employees. These requirements involve a determination as to the number of hours an employee “works” each workweek. As explained below, the FLSA generally requires that compensable working time include any time that an employee is suffered or permitted to work. FLSA regulations further provide that, generally speaking, short rest periods of 5 to 20 minutes are considered compensable working time, whereas bona fide meal periods, typically 30 minutes or longer, are not working time.