[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR516.1]

[Page 101-102]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
         CHAPTER V--WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 516_RECORDS TO BE KEPT BY EMPLOYERS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 516.1  Form of records; scope of regulations.

    (a) Form of records. No particular order or form of records is 
prescribed by the regulations in this part. However, every employer 
subject to any provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as 
amended (hereinafter referred to as the ``Act''), is required to 
maintain records containing the information and data required by the 
specific sections of this part. The records may be maintained and 
preserved on microfilm or other basic source document of an automatic 
word or data processing memory provided that adequate projection or 
viewing equipment is available, that the reproductions are clear and 
identifiable by date or pay period and that extensions or transcriptions 
of the information required

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by this part are made available upon request.
    (b) Scope of regulations. The regulations in this part are divided 
into two subparts.
    (1) Subpart A of this part contains the requirements generally 
applicable to all employers employing covered employees, including the 
requirements relating to the posting of notices, the preservation and 
location of records, and the recordkeeping requirements for employers of 
employees to whom both the minimum wage provisions of section 6 or the 
minimum wage provisions of section 6 and the overtime pay provisions of 
section 7(a) of the Act apply. In addition, Sec. 516.3 contains the 
requirements relating to executive, administrative, and professional 
employees (including academic administrative personnel or teachers in 
elementary or secondary schools), and outside sales employees.
    (2) Subpart B of this part deals with the information and data which 
must be kept for employees (other than executive, administrative, etc., 
employees) who are subject to any of the exemptions provided in the Act. 
This section also specifies the records needed for deductions from and 
additions to wages for ``board, lodging, or other facilities,'' 
industrial homeworkers and employees whose tips are credited toward 
wages. The sections in subpart B of this part require the recording of 
more, less, or different items of information or data than required 
under the generally applicable recordkeeping requirements of subpart A.
    (c) Relationship to other recordkeeping and reporting requirements. 
Nothing in 29 CFR part 516 shall excuse any party from complying with 
any recordkeeping or reporting requirement imposed by any other Federal, 
State or local law, ordinance, regulation or rule.