[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: 29CFR785.29]

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                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
         CHAPTER V--WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 785_HOURS WORKED--Table of Contents
 
                   Subpart C_Application of Principles
 
Sec. 785.29  Training directly related to employee's job.

    The training is directly related to the employee's job if it is 
designed to make the employee handle his job more effectively as 
distinguished from training him for another job, or to a new or 
additional skill. For example, a stenographer who is given a course in 
stenography is engaged in an activity to make her a better stenographer. 
Time spent in such a course given by the employer or under his auspices 
is hours worked. However, if the stenographer takes a course in 
bookkeeping, it may not be directly related to her job. Thus, the time 
she spends voluntarily in taking such a bookkeeping course, outside of 
regular working

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hours, need not be counted as working time. Where a training course is 
instituted for the bona fide purpose of preparing for advancement 
through upgrading the employee to a higher skill, and is not intended to 
make the employee more efficient in his present job, the training is not 
considered directly related to the employee's job even though the course 
incidentally improves his skill in doing his regular work.

[30 FR 9912, Aug, 10, 1965]