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  The FLSA requires employers to pay all employees a specified minimum wage, and overtime of time and one-half for hours worked in excess of forty hours per week. 29 U.S.C. §§ 206-07. NYLL requires the same, except that it specifies a higher wage rate than the federal minimum. See N.Y. Labor Law § 652. An employee cannot waive his right to the minimum wage and overtime pay because waiver 'would nullify the purposes of the [FLSA] and thwart the legislative policies it was designed to effectuate.' Barrentine v. Arkansas- Best Freight Sys., Inc., 450 U.S. 728, 740, 101 S. ...