[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: 29CFR778.100]

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                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
         CHAPTER V--WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 778_OVERTIME COMPENSATION--Table of Contents
 
                 Subpart B_The Overtime Pay Requirements
 
Sec. 778.100  The maximum-hours provisions.

                              Introductory


    Section 7(a) of the Act deals with maximum hours and overtime 
compensation for employees who are within the general coverage of the 
Act and are not specifically exempt from its overtime pay requirements. 
It prescribes the maximum weekly hours of work permitted for the 
employment of such employees in any workweek without extra compensation 
for overtime, and a general overtime rate of pay not less than one and 
one-half times the employee's regular rate which the employee must 
receive for all hours worked in any workweek in excess of the applicable 
maximum hours. The employment by an employer of an employee in any work 
subject to the Act in any workweek brings these provisions into 
operation. The employer is prohibited from employing the employee in 
excess of the prescribed maximum hours in such workweek without paying 
him the required extra compensation for the overtime hours worked at a 
rate meeting the statutory requirement.

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