(a) ``Goods'' upon which the described activities are performed.
Employees will be considered to be handling, selling, or otherwise
working on goods within the meaning of section 3(s) if they engage in
the described activities on ``goods'' which ``have been moved in or
produced for commerce by any person.'' They may be handling or working
on such goods which the enterprise does not sell. The term ``goods'' is
defined in section 3(i) of the Act. The definition is explained in
Sec. 779.107 and discussed comprehensively in part 776 of this chapter.
As defined in section 3(i) of the Act, the term includes any part or
ingredient of ``goods'' and, in general, includes ``articles or subjects
of commerce of any character.'' Thus the
term ``goods,'' as used in section 3(s), includes all goods which have
been moved in or produced for commerce, such as stock-in-trade, or raw
materials that have been moved in or produced for commerce.
(b) ``Handling * * * or otherwise working on goods.'' The term
``handling * * * or otherwise working on goods'' used in section 3(s) is
substantially the same as the term used since 1938 in section 3(j) of
the Act. Both terms will therefore be considered to have essentially the
same meaning. (See part 776 of this chapter, the interpretative bulletin
on the general coverage of the Act.) Thus, the activities encompassed in
the term ``handling or in any other manner working on goods'' in section
3(s) are the same as the activities, encompassed in the similar term in
section 3(j), by which goods are ``produced'' within the meaning of the
Act. In general, the term ``handling * * * or otherwise working on
goods'' includes employees who sort, screen, grade, store, pack, label,
address, transport, deliver, print, type, or otherwise handle or work on
the goods. The same will be true of employees who handle or work on
``any part of ingredient of the goods'' referred to in the discussion of
the term ``goods'' in Sec. 779.107. An employee will be considered
engaged in ``handling * * * or otherwise working on goods,'' within the
meaning of section 3(s), only if he performs the described activities on
goods that ``have been moved in or produced for commerce by any
person.'' This requirement is discussed in Secs. 779.242 and 779.243.
