[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: 29CFR780.1]

[Page 562]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
         CHAPTER V--WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 780_EXEMPTIONS APPLICABLE TO AGRICULTURE, PROCESSING OF AGRICULTURAL 
 
                         Subpart A_Introductory
 
Sec. 780.1  General scope of the Act.

    The Fair Labor Standards Act is a Federal statute of general 
application which establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, equal pay, and 
child labor requirements that apply as provided in the Act. These 
requirements are applicable, except where exemptions are provided, to 
employees in those workweeks when they are engaged in interstate or 
foreign commerce or in the production of goods for such commerce or are 
employed in enterprises so engaged within the meaning of definitions set 
forth in the Act. Employers having such employees are required to comply 
with the Act's provisions in this regard unless relieved therefrom by 
some exemption in the Act, and with specified recordkeeping requirements 
contained in part 516 of this chapter. The law authorizes the Department 
of Labor to investigate for compliance and, in the event of violations, 
to supervise the payment of unpaid minimum wages or unpaid overtime 
compensation owing to any employee. The law also provides for 
enforcement in the courts.