[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: 29CFR778.5]

[Page 359]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
         CHAPTER V--WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 778_OVERTIME COMPENSATION--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart A_General Considerations
 
Sec. 778.5  Relation to other laws generally.

    Various Federal, State, and local laws require the payment of 
minimum hourly, daily or weekly wages different from the minimum set 
forth in the Fair Labor Standards Act, and the payment of overtime 
compensation computed on bases different from those set forth in the 
Fair Labor Standards Act. Where such legislation is applicable and does 
not contravene the requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act, nothing 
in the act, the regulations or the interpretations announced by the 
Administrator should be taken to override or nullify the provisions of 
these laws. Compliance with other applicable legislation does not excuse 
noncompliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act. Where a higher minimum 
wage than that set in the Fair Labor Standards Act is applicable to an 
employee by virtue of such other legislation, the regular rate of the 
employee, as the term is used in the Fair Labor Standards Act, cannot be 
lower than such applicable minimum, for the words ``regular rate at 
which he is employed'' as used in section 7 must be construed to mean 
the regular rate at which he is lawfully employed.