Regulations last checked for updates: May 04, 2024

Title 29 - Labor last revised: Apr 30, 2024
§ 785.6 - Definition of “employ” and partial definition of “hours worked”.

By statutory definition the term “employ” includes (section 3(g)) “to suffer or permit to work.” The act, however, contains no definition of “work”. Section 3(o) of the Fair Labor Standards Act contains a partial definition of “hours worked” in the form of a limited exception for clothes-changing and wash-up time.

authority: 52 Stat. 1060; 29 U.S.C. 201-219; 29 U.S.C. 254. Pub. L. 104-188, 100 Stat. 1755
source: 26 FR 190, Jan. 11, 1961, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 29 CFR 785.6