{"data":{"id":"us/29-cfr-778.324","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"29 CFR 778.324","heading":"Effect on hourly rate employees.","body":"A similar situation is presented where employees have been hired at an hourly rate of pay and have customarily worked a fixed workweek. If the workweek is reduced from 40 to 35 hours without reduction in total pay, the average hourly rate is thereby increased as in § 778.322. If the reduction in work schedule is accompanied by a new agreement altering the mode of compensation from an hourly rate basis to a fixed salary for a variable workweek up to 40 hours, the results described in § 778.323 follow.","path":["Title 29—Labor","Subtitle B—Regulations Relating to Labor","CHAPTER V—WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR","SUBCHAPTER B—STATEMENTS OF GENERAL POLICY OR INTERPRETATION NOT DIRECTLY RELATED TO REGULATIONS","PART 778—OVERTIME COMPENSATION","Subpart D—Special Problems"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-29.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:25:20Z","sha256":"ed01375cb688bdb9d936d9d1c300d8b28177b0d07f2d4e63a3829b747930e68d","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/29-cfr-778.323","next":"us/29-cfr-778.325"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}