Instead, they are employed under Jordanian labor law, which does not require minimum wage, payment for overtime and other social rights.

Any payments for overtime must be in accordance with the applicable provisions of the OJP Financial Guide.

"Annual Salary" includes most differential payments (such as work-out-of-classification and bilingual differential), but excludes payments for overtime, shift differential, benefits, and vacation payout.

Payment for overtime hours in work was abolished in general, only after working 61 hours in week were Poles allowed to receive a 10% higher compensation in pay (Germans were paid 100%).

The FLSA establishes a standard work week of 40 hours for certain kinds of workers, and mandates payment for overtime hours to those workers of one and one-half times the workers' normal rate of pay for any time worked above 40 hours.

To the Editor: Thomas Geoghegan (Op-Ed, Jan. 24) does a good job of alerting us to the growing problem of employers who cheat their workers out of payment for overtime, breaks and work done off the clock - a widespread abuse estimated to cost employees more than $19 billion a year.