[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: 29CFR541.4]

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                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
         CHAPTER V--WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 541_DEFINING AND DELIMITING THE EXEMPTIONS FOR EXECUTIVE, 
 
                      Subpart A_General Regulations
 
Sec. 541.4  Other laws and collective bargaining agreements.

    The Fair Labor Standards Act provides minimum standards that may be

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exceeded, but cannot be waived or reduced. Employers must comply, for 
example, with any Federal, State or municipal laws, regulations or 
ordinances establishing a higher minimum wage or lower maximum workweek 
than those established under the Act. Similarly, employers, on their own 
initiative or under a collective bargaining agreement with a labor 
union, are not precluded by the Act from providing a wage higher than 
the statutory minimum, a shorter workweek than the statutory maximum, or 
a higher overtime premium (double time, for example) than provided by 
the Act. While collective bargaining agreements cannot waive or reduce 
the Act's protections, nothing in the Act or the regulations in this 
part relieves employers from their contractual obligations under 
collective bargaining agreements.