[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 48, Volume 5]
[Revised as of October 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 48CFR852.222-70]

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            TITLE 48--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM
 
                CHAPTER 8--DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
 
Sec. 852.222-70  Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act--nursing 

home care contract supplement.

    As prescribed in 822.304, nursing home care contracts will include 
the following clause.

 Contract Workhours and Safety Standard Act--Nursing Home Care Contract 
                          Supplement (APR 1984)

    In the performance of any contract entered into pursuant to the 
provisions of 38 U.S.C. 1720 to provide nursing home care of veterans, 
no contractor or subcontractor under such contract shall be deemed in 
violation of Section 102 of the Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards 
Act by virtue of failure to pay the overtime wages required by such 
section for work in excess of 8 hours in any calendar day or 40 hours in 
the workweek to any individual employed by establishment which is an 
institution primarily engaged in the care of the sick, the aged, or the 
mentally ill or defective who reside on the premises if, pursuant to an 
agreement or understanding arrived at between the employer and the 
employee before performance of the work, a work period of 14 consecutive 
days is accepted in lieu of the workweek of 7 consecutive days for the 
purpose of overtime compensation and if such individual receives 
compensation for employment in excess of 8 hours in any workday and in 
excess of 80 hours in such 14-day period at a rate not less than 1\1/2\ 
times the regular rate at which the individual is employed, computed in 
accordance with the requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 
1938, as amended.

                             (End of clause)

[49 FR 12629, Mar. 29, 1984, as amended at 50 FR 794, Jan. 7, 1985; 63 
FR 69223, Dec. 16, 1998]