[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: 29CFR779.3]

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                             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 A_General
 
Sec. 779.3  Pay standards for employees subject to previous coverage of 
the Act.

    Before the 1966 amendments, the Act applied, as it still applies, to 
employees individually engaged in interstate or foreign commerce or in 
the production of goods for such commerce, and to employees in certain 
enterprises, including enterprises in which retail sales of goods or 
services are made. The tests by which coverage based on the employee's 
individual activities is determined were not changed by the 1966 
amendments and are described in subpart B of this part. An employee in 
an enterprise whose activities satisfy the conditions prescribed in the 
law prior to the 1966 amendments (discussed in subpart C) is covered 
under the present Act. Any employee whose employment satisfies the tests 
by which individual or enterprise coverage is determined under the Act 
prior to the 1966 amendments and who would not have come within some 
exemption in the law prior to the amendments is subject to the monetary 
provisions prescribed in the law for previously covered employees and is 
entitled to a minimum wage of

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at least $1.40 an hour beginning February 1, 1967, and not less than 
$1.60 an hour beginning February 1, 1968, unless expressly exempted by 
some provision of the amended Act. (In each instance where there is an 
increase in the minimum wage, the new minimum wage rate becomes 
effective 12:01 a.m., on the date indicated.) Such an employee is also 
entitled to overtime pay for hours worked in excess of 40 in any 
workweek at a rate not less than one and one-half times his regular rate 
of pay. (Minimum wage rates in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and 
American Samoa are governed by special provisions of the Act. 
Information on these rates is available at any office of the Wage and 
Hour Division.)