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29 CFR 785.49 Applicable provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

29 CFR Part 785: Hours Worked (29 CFR Part 785)

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(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.”

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ID: provision:us:29-cfr-785:785.49
sha256: a8cf1e62f965b5d9a99dbe1db38b71a4895ce00dfb1e82bd4d3a85dea5da91cd
Official text: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-29/part-785 · eCFR, up to date as of 2026-09-25 · Read 2026-09-29
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