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Summary of differences between federal and state regulations
The federal law does not spell out actual hours that must be worked in a work day. Under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, the workweek ordinarily includes all the time during which an employee is required to be:
- On the employer's premises,
- On duty, or
- At a prescribed work place.
Connecticut specifies the work day as 8 hours, unless otherwise agreed. A workweek is 40 hours and after 40 hours the employee will be compensated at 1 ½ times his/her regular rate.
State
Contact
Connecticut Department of Labor—Wage and Workplace Standards Division
Regulations
Title 31 Labor
chapter 557 (§§31-12 to 31-57g) – Employment Regulation
chapter 558 (§§31-58 to 31-76m) – Wages
sec. 31-21. Legal day's work. Eight hours of labor performed in any one day by any one person shall be a legal day's work unless otherwise agreed.
sec. 31-76c. Length of workweek. No employer, except as otherwise provided herein, shall employ any of his employees for a workweek longer than forty hours, unless such employee receives remuneration for his employment in excess of the hours above specified at a rate not less than one and one-half times the regular rate at which he is employed.
Federal
Contact
The Department of Labor is the federal agency that monitors hours worked.
Regulations
U.S. labor regulations for hours worked can be found in CFR 29: