FAR and DFARS › FAR Part 37: Service Contracting › Subpart 37.1
FAR 37.107 Service Contract Labor Standards.
The codified text (eCFR, as of 2026-10-02). Under the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul ↗, agencies follow class deviations with new text for many parts while the formal rules go through the Federal Register: check the solicitation and your contract's clauses, which rule.
In plain English
This section notes that the Service Contract Labor Standards statute sets minimum wages, fringe benefits, and other work conditions for certain service contracts. It explains that whether those standards apply to a particular contract depends on the definitions and exceptions in the statute or its implementing regulations. Contractors bidding on service contracts should check those definitions and exceptions to know if the standards apply.
Applies to: certain types of service contracts
Key terms: Service Contract Labor Standards · minimum wages · fringe benefits · conditions of work · service contracts
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The text
41 U.S.C. chapter 67, Service Contract Labor Standards, provides for minimum wages and fringe benefits as well as other conditions of work under certain types of service contracts. Whether or not the Service Contract Labor Standards statute applies to a specific service contract will be determined by the definitions and exceptions given in the Service Contract Labor Standards statute, or implementing regulations.
Sections that refer to it
- 41.101 Definitions.
← 37.106 Funding and term of service contracts. · 37.108 Small business Certificate of Competency. →
Rule changes for FAR Part 37
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Revolutionary Federal Acquisition Regulation Overhaul Parts 6, 7, 10, 18, 26, 37, and 41 ↗ · proposed 2026-06-23 · comments due 2026-07-23
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Preventing Organizational Conflicts of Interest in Federal Acquisition ↗ · proposed 2025-01-15 · comments due 2025-03-17
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Sustainable Procurement ↗ · final rule 2024-04-22 · effective 2024-05-22
Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.