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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 785  

Hours Worked

 

 

 

Subpart C  

Application of Principles


29 CFR 785.26 - Section 3(o) of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

  • Section Number: 785.26
  • Section Name: Section 3(o) of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

    Section 3(o) of the Act provides an exception to the general rule 
for employees under collective bargaining agreements. This section 
provides for the exclusion from hours worked of time spent by an 
employee in changing
clothes or washing at the beginning or end of each workday which was 
excluded from 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 employee. During any 
week in which such clothes-changing or washing time was not so excluded, 
it must be counted as hours worked if the changing of clothes or washing 
is indispensable to the performance of the employee's work or is 
required by law or by the rules of the employer. The same would be true 
if the changing of clothes or washing was a preliminary or postliminary 
activity compensable by contract, custom, or practice as provided by 
section 4 of the Portal-to-Portal Act, and as discussed in Sec. 785.9 
and part 790 of this chapter.
[30 FR 9912, Aug. 10, 1965]
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