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Code of Federal Regulations Pertaining to U.S. Department of Labor

Title 29  

Labor

 

Chapter V  

Wage and Hour Division, Department of Labor

 

 

Part 779  

The Fair Labor Standards Act As Applied to Retailers of Goods or Services

 

 

 

Subpart E  

Provisions Relating to Certain Employees of Retail or Service Establishments


29 CFR 779.401 - Statutory provision.

  • Section Number: 779.401
  • Section Name: Statutory provision.

    Section 13(a)(1) of the Act provides that the provisions of sections 
6 and 7 shall not apply with respect to:

    Any employee employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, or 
professional capacity (including any employee employed in the capacity 
of academic administrative personnel or teacher in elementary or 
secondary schools), or in the capacity of outside salesman (as such 
terms are defined and delimited from time to time by regulations of the 
Secretary, subject to the provisions of the Administrative Procedure 
Act, except that an employee of a retail or service establishment shall 
not be excluded from the definition of employee employed in a bona fide 
executive or administrative capacity because of the number of hours in 
his workweek which he devotes to activities not directly or closely 
related to the performance of executive or administrative activities, if 
less than 40 per centum of his hours worked in the workweek are devoted 
to such activities).
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