---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 C.F.R. § 779.111"
title: "29"
number: "779.111"
heading: "Buyers and their assistants."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/29/779.111"
---

# §779.111. Buyers and their assistants.


Buyers and their assistants, employed by retail businesses, as a regular part of their duties, generally travel across State lines, or use the mails, telegraph, or telephone for interstate communication to order goods; or they regularly send or receive, across State lines, written reports, messages or other documents. These activities of such employees constitute engagement “in commerce” within the meaning of the Act.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 1-19, 52 Stat. 1060, as amended; 75 Stat. 65; Sec. 29(B), Pub. L. 93-259, 88 Stat. 55; 29 U.S.C. 201-219.

### Source

Source: 35 FR 5856, Apr. 9, 1970, unless otherwise noted.