[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
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[CITE: 29CFR778.102]

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                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
         CHAPTER V--WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 778_OVERTIME COMPENSATION--Table of Contents
 
                 Subpart B_The Overtime Pay Requirements
 
Sec. 778.102  Application of overtime provisions generally.

    Since there is no absolute limitation in the Act (apart from the 
child labor provisions and regulations thereunder) on the number of 
hours that an employee may work in any workweek, he may work as many 
hours a week as he and his employer see fit, so long as the required 
overtime compensation is paid him for hours worked in excess of the 
maximum workweek prescribed by section 7(a). The Act does not generally 
require, however, that an employee be paid overtime compensation for 
hours in excess of eight per day, or for work on Saturdays, Sundays, 
holidays or regular days of rest. If no more than the maximum number of 
hours prescribed in the Act are actually worked in the workweek, 
overtime compensation pursuant to section 7(a) need not be paid. Nothing 
in the Act, however, will relieve an employer of any obligation he may 
have assumed by contract or of any obligation imposed by other Federal 
or State law to limit overtime hours of work or to pay premium rates for 
work in excess of a daily standard or for work on Saturdays, Sundays, 
holidays, or other periods outside of or in excess of the normal or 
regular workweek or workday. (The effect of making such payments is 
discussed in Sec. Sec. 778.201 through 778.207 and 778.219.)

[46 FR 7309, Jan. 23, 1981]