[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR779.105]

[Page 471]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
         CHAPTER V--WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 779_THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT AS APPLIED TO RETAILERS OF GOODS OR 
SERVICES--Table of Contents
 
 Subpart B_Employment to Which the Act May Apply: Basic Principles and 
                           Individual Coverage
 
Sec. 779.105  Employees engaged in activities ``closely related'' and 
``directly essential'' to the production of goods for commerce.

    Some employees are covered because their work, although not actually 
a part of such production, is ``closely related'' and ``directly 
essential'' to it. This group of employees includes bookkeepers, 
stenographers, clerks, accountants and auditors and other office and 
white collar workers, and employees doing payroll, timekeeping and time 
study work for the producer of goods; employees in the personnel, labor 
relations, advertising, promotion, and public relations activities of 
the producing enterprise; work instructors for the producer; employees 
maintaining, servicing, repairing or improving the buildings, machinery, 
equipment, vehicles or other facilities used in the production of goods 
for commerce, and such custodial and protective employees as watchmen, 
guards, firemen, patrolmen, caretakers, stockroom workers, and 
warehousemen; and transportation workers bringing supplies, materials, 
or equipment to the producer's premises, removing waste materials 
therefrom, or transporting materials or other goods, or performing such 
other transportation activities, as the needs of production may require. 
These examples are illustrative, rather than exhaustive, of the group of 
employees of a producer who are ``engaged in the production of goods for 
commerce'' by reason of performing activities closely related and 
directly essential to such production.