29 CFR § 553.232 - Overtime pay requirements.

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title: "29 CFR § 553.232 - Overtime pay requirements."
title_number: 29
title_name: "Labor"
section_number: "553.232"
section_name: "Overtime pay requirements."
chapter_name: "WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR"
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part_name: "APPLICATION OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT TO EMPLOYEES OF STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS"
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authority: "Secs. 1-19, 52 Stat. 1060, as amended (29 U.S.C. 201-219); Pub. L. 99-150, 99 Stat. 787 (29 U.S.C. 203, 207, 211). Pub. L. 106-151, 113 Stat. 1731 (29 U.S.C. 203(y))."
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# 553.232 Overtime pay requirements.

If a public agency pays employees subject to section 7(k) for overtime hours worked in cash wages rather than compensatory time off, such wages must be paid at one and one-half times the employees' regular rates of pay. In addition, employees who have accrued the maximum 480 hours of compensatory time must be paid cash wages of time and one-half their regular rates of pay for overtime hours in excess of the maximum for the work period set forth in § 553.230.