[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: 29CFR785.49]



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                             TITLE 29--LABOR

 

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

 

PART 785_HOURS WORKED--Table of Contents

 

                   Subpart E_Miscellaneous Provisions

 

Sec.  785.49  Applicable provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.





    (a) Section 6. Section 6 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 

U.S.C. 206) requires that each employee, not specifically exempted, who 

is engaged in commerce, or in the production of goods for commerce, or 

who is employed in an enterprise engaged in commerce, or in the 

production of goods for commerce receive a specified minimum wage.

    (b) Section 7. Section 7(a) of the Act (29 U.S.C. 207) provides that 

persons may not be employed for more than a stated number of hours a 

week without receiving at least one and one-half times their regular 

rate of pay for the overtime hours.

    (c) Section 3(g). Section 3(g) of this act provides that: `` 

`Employ' includes to suffer or permit to work.''

    (d) Section 3(o). Section 3(o) of this act provides that: ``Hours 

worked--in determining for the purposes of sections 6 and 7 the hours 

for which an employee is employed, there shall be excluded any time 

spent in changing clothes or washing at the beginning or end of each 

workday which was excluded from the measured working time during the 

week involved by the express terms of or by custom or practice under a 

bona fide collective-bargaining agreement applicable to the particular 

employees.''



[26 FR 190, Jan. 11, 1961, as amended at 26 FR 7732, Aug. 18, 1961]