## Alabama wage and backpay rules

This source-backed guide covers US-AL wage backpay authority (29 U.S.C. § 207(a)(1)). It certifies only the quoted Oregon wage, overtime, final-wages, penalty-wage, and interest rules listed below; special exemptions and calculator corner cases remain outside certification unless a quoted source says otherwise.

## 29 U.S.C. § 207(a)(1)

US-AL wage backpay controlling authority under 29 U.S.C. § 207(a)(1).

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## Sources

- [29 — 29 U.S.C. § 207(a)(1)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section207&num=0)

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How Wage Backpay rules vary in Alabama

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Alabama's wage-hour baseline is federal. Official Alabama Code searches through the ALISON GraphQL endpoint returned no Alabama code display IDs for either "minimum wage" or "overtime" on 2026-04-24, while the shipped file's cited Alabama sections were either workers' compensation administration (§ 25-5-2) or nonexistent (§§ 25-1-29.1, 25-8-31). FLSA applies directly: 40-hour weekly threshold, 1.5x overtime rate, $7.25 federal minimum wage, and $2.13 tipped cash wage.

FLSA governs Alabama wage-backpay remedies. Section 216(b) provides unpaid wages or overtime plus an additional equal amount as liquidated damages and a reasonable attorney's fee. Section 255(a) sets a 2-year limitations period, extended to 3 years for willful violations. Section 260 provides the good-faith / reasonable-grounds defense to liquidated damages. Alabama has no separate state wage-hour liquidated-damages statute verified in official sources. For Title VII claims, Alabama is a non-deferral state so the EEOC charge period is 180 days under § 2000e-5(e)(1); back pay is capped at 2 years before the charge and reduced by interim earnings / reasonable-diligence earnings under § 2000e-5(g)(1). Federal post-judgment interest runs under 28 U.S.C. § 1961(a).

Except as otherwise provided in this section, no employer shall employ any of his employees who in any workweek is engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, or is employed in an enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, for a workweek longer than forty hours unless such employee receives compensation for his employment in excess of the hours above specified at a rate not less than one and one-half times the regular rate at which he is employed.

Back pay liability shall not accrue from a date more than two years prior to the filing of a charge with the Commission. Interim earnings or amounts earnable with reasonable diligence by the person or persons discriminated against shall operate to reduce the back pay otherwise allowable.

A charge under this section shall be filed within one hundred and eighty days after the alleged unlawful employment practice occurred

Interest shall be allowed on any money judgment in a civil case recovered in a district court. Execution therefor may be levied by the marshal, in any case where, by the law of the State in which such court is held, execution may be levied for interest on judgments recovered in the courts of the State. Such interest shall be calculated from the date of the entry of the judgment, at a rate equal to the weekly average 1-year constant maturity Treasury yield, as published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, for the calendar week preceding. 1 the date of the judgment. The Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts shall distribute notice of that rate and any changes in it to all Federal judges.

for a workweek longer than forty hours unless such employee receives compensation for his employment in excess of the hours above specified at a rate not less than one and one-half times the regular rate at which he is employed.

wage backpay in US-AL is governed by 29 U.S.C. § 207(a)(1).

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