[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 29, Volume 3]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 29CFR785.29]



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                             TITLE 29--LABOR

 

         CHAPTER V--WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

 

PART 785_HOURS WORKED--Table of Contents

 

                   Subpart C_Application of Principles

 

Sec.  785.29  Training directly related to employee's job.



    The training is directly related to the employee's job if it is 

designed to make the employee handle his job more effectively as 

distinguished from training him for another job, or to a new or 

additional skill. For example, a stenographer who is given a course in 

stenography is engaged in an activity to make her a better stenographer. 

Time spent in such a course given by the employer or under his auspices 

is hours worked. However, if the stenographer takes a course in 

bookkeeping, it may not be directly related to her job. Thus, the time 

she spends voluntarily in taking such a bookkeeping course, outside of 

regular working hours, need not be counted as working time. Where a 

training course is instituted for the bona fide purpose of preparing for 

advancement through upgrading the employee to a higher skill, and is not 

intended to make the employee more efficient in his present job, the 

training is not considered directly related to the employee's job even 

though the course incidentally improves his skill in doing his regular 

work.



[30 FR 9912, Aug, 10, 1965]