As a general standard, section 7(a) of the Act provides 40 hours as
the maximum number that an employee subject to its provisions may work
for an employer in any workweek without receiving additional
compensation at not less than the statutory rate for overtime. Hours
worked in excess of the statutory maximum in any workweek are overtime
hours under the statute; a workweek no longer than the prescribed
maximum is a nonovertime workweek under the Act, to which the pay
requirements of section 6 (minimum wage and equal pay) but not those of
section 7(a) are applicable.
[46 FR 7309, Jan. 23, 1981]
