48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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7 sections with “standard workweek”

  • FAR 52.222-4 Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards—Overtime Compensation.
    As prescribed in 22.305, insert the following clause: Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards—Overtime Compensation (MAY 2018) (a) Overtime requirements. No Contractor or subcontractor employing laborers or mechanics (see Federal Acquisi…
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    …ct cost rates and forward pricing rates, if applicable, and administering cost accounting standards for all contracts in a business unit. Combatant commander means the commander of a unified or specified combatant command established in ac…
  • FAR 52.222-55 Minimum Wages for Contractor Workers Under Executive Order 14026.
    …ve Order 14026, and — (A) Whose wages under such contract are governed by the Fair Labor Standards Act (29 U.S.C. chapter 8), the Service Contract Labor Standards statute (41 U.S.C. chapter 67), or the Wage Rate Requirements (Construction)…
  • FAR 22.302 Liquidated damages and overtime pay.
    …dar day on which the employer required or permitted the employee to work in excess of the standard workweek of 40 hours without paying overtime wages required by the statute. In accordance with the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustme…
  • FAR 22.403-3 Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards.
    40 U.S.C. chapter 37, Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards, requires that certain contracts (see 22.305) contain a clause (see 52.222-4) specifying that no laborer or mechanic doing any part of the work contemplated by the contract shal…
  • FAR 22.1903 Applicability.
    (a) This subpart applies to contracts covered by the Service Contract Labor Standards statute (41 U.S.C. chapter 67, formerly known as the Service Contract Act, subpart 22.10), or the Wage Rate Requirements (Construction) statute (40 U.S.C.…
  • FAR 22.401 Definitions.
    …ees, helpers, and, in the case of contracts subject to the Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards statute, watchmen and guards; (iii) Working foremen who devote more than 20 percent of their time during a workweek performing duties of a …

FAR (chapter 1)

DFARS (chapter 2, Defense)

Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Rule changes in progress: FAR, DFARS. Terms: glossary.