[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: 29CFR778.105]

[Page 361-362]
 
                             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. 778.105  Determining the workweek.

    An employee's workweek is a fixed and regularly recurring period of 
168 hours--seven consecutive 24-hour periods. It need not coincide with 
the calendar week but may begin on any day and at any hour of the day. 
For purposes of computing pay due under the Fair Labor Standards Act, a 
single

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workweek may be established for a plant or other establishment as a 
whole or different workweeks may be established for different employees 
or groups of employees. Once the beginning time of an employee's 
workweek is established, it remains fixed regardless of the schedule of 
hours worked by him. The beginning of the workweek may be changed if the 
change is intended to be permanent and is not designed to evade the 
overtime requirements of the Act. The proper method of computing 
overtime pay in a period in which a change in the time of commencement 
of the workweek is made, is discussed in Sec. Sec. 778.301 and 778.302.