[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: 29CFR779.3]

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                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
         CHAPTER V--WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 779_THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT AS APPLIED TO RETAILERS OF GOODS 
OR SERVICES--Table of Contents
 
                            Subpart A_General
 
Sec. 779.3  Pay standards for employees subject to previous coverage of 
the Act.

    Before the 1966 amendments, the Act applied, as it still applies, to 
employees individually engaged in interstate or foreign commerce or in 
the production of goods for such commerce, and to employees in certain 
enterprises, including enterprises in which retail sales of goods or 
services are made. The tests by which coverage based on the employee's 
individual activities is determined were not changed by the 1966 
amendments and are described in subpart B of this part. An employee in 
an enterprise whose activities satisfy the conditions prescribed in the 
law prior to the 1966 amendments (discussed in subpart C) is covered 
under the present Act. Any employee whose employment satisfies the tests 
by which individual or enterprise coverage is determined

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under the Act prior to the 1966 amendments and who would not have come 
within some exemption in the law prior to the amendments is subject to 
the monetary provisions prescribed in the law for previously covered 
employees and is entitled to a minimum wage of at least $1.40 an hour 
beginning February 1, 1967, and not less than $1.60 an hour beginning 
February 1, 1968, unless expressly exempted by some provision of the 
amended Act. (In each instance where there is an increase in the minimum 
wage, the new minimum wage rate becomes effective 12:01 a.m., on the 
date indicated.) Such an employee is also entitled to overtime pay for 
hours worked in excess of 40 in any workweek at a rate not less than one 
and one-half times his regular rate of pay. (Minimum wage rates in 
Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa are governed by 
special provisions of the Act. Information on these rates is available 
at any office of the Wage and Hour Division.)