ARE ALL STW WORK-BASED LEARNING EXPERIENCES SUBJECT TO FLSA?
No. Activities occurring in the workplace that do not involve the performance of work are not “employment” subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act. Some examples of these activities include: • Career awareness and exploration; • Field trips to a worksite; • Job shadowing (whereby a student follows and observes an employee in his/her daily activities, but performs no work). a. What are the elements of a learning experience at an employer’s worksite? There are four elements that constitute a learning experience under STW. Specifically, a learning experience: (1) Is a planned program of job training and work experience for the student, appropriate to the student’s abilities, which includes training related to preemployment and employment skills to be mastered at progressively higher levels that are coordinated with learning in the school-based learning component and lead to the awarding of a skill certificate; (2) Encompasses a sequence of activities that build upon one another, increasin
