---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 C.F.R. § 553.50"
title: "29"
number: "553.50"
heading: "Records to be kept of compensatory time."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/29/553.50"
---

# §553.50. Records to be kept of compensatory time.


For each employee subject to the compensatory time and compensatory time off provisions of section 7(o) of the Act, a public agency which is a State, a political subdivision of a State or an interstate governmental agency shall maintain and preserve records containing the basic information and data required by [§ 516.2](/cfr/29/516.2.md) of this title and, in addition:

- (a) The number of hours of compensatory time earned pursuant to [section 7(o)](/cfr/29/7.md?p=o) each workweek, or other applicable work period, by each employee at the rate of one and one-half hour for each overtime hour worked;
- (b) The number of hours of such compensatory time used each workweek, or other applicable work period, by each employee;
- (c) The number of hours of compensatory time compensated in cash, the total amount paid and the date of such payment; and
- (d) Any collective bargaining agreement or written understanding or agreement with respect to earning and using compensatory time off. If such agreement or understanding is not in writing, a record of its existence must be kept.

## Notes

### Authority

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)).

### Source

Source: 52 FR 2032, Jan. 16, 1987, unless otherwise noted.