---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 C.F.R. § 778.205"
title: "29"
number: "778.205"
heading: "Premiums for weekend and holiday work—example."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/29/778.205"
---

# §778.205. Premiums for weekend and holiday work—example.


The application of section 7(e)(6) of the Act may be illustrated by the following example: Suppose, based on a written or unwritten employment contract, agreement, understanding, handbook, policy, or practice, an employee earns $18 an hour for all hours worked on a holiday or on Sunday in the operation of machines by operators whose maximum hours standard is 40 hours and who are paid a bona fide hourly rate of $12 for like work performed during nonovertime hours on other days. Suppose further that the workweek of such an employee begins at 12:01 a.m. Sunday, and in a particular week he works a schedule of 8 hours on Sunday and on each day from Monday through Saturday, making a total of 56 hours worked in the workweek. Tuesday is a holiday. The payment of $768 to which the employee is entitled will satisfy the requirements of the Act since the employer may properly exclude from the regular rate the extra $48 paid for work on Sunday and the extra $48 paid for holiday work and credit himself with such amount against the statutory overtime premium required to be paid for the 16 hours worked over 40.


## Notes

### Amendments

[84 FR 68771, Dec. 16, 2019]

### Authority

Authority: 52 Stat. 1060, as amended; 29 U.S.C. 201 et seq. Section 778.200 also issued under Pub. L. 106-202, 114 Stat. 308 (29 U.S.C. 207(e) and (h)).

### Source

Source: 33 FR 986, Jan. 26, 1968, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[84 FR 68771, Dec. 16, 2019]