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    <CFRTITLE>29</CFRTITLE>
    <CFRTITLETEXT>Labor</CFRTITLETEXT>
    <VOL>3</VOL>
    <DATE>2011-07-01</DATE>
    <ORIGINALDATE>2011-07-01</ORIGINALDATE>
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    <TITLE>Employees residing on employer's premises or working at home.</TITLE>
    <GRANULENUM>785.23</GRANULENUM>
    <HEADING>Section 785.23</HEADING>
    <ANCESTORS>
      <PARENT HEADING="Title 29" SEQ="6">Labor</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="Subtitle B" SEQ="5">Regulations Relating to Labor (Continued)</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="CHAPTER V" SEQ="4">WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="SUBCHAPTER B" SEQ="3">STATEMENTS OF GENERAL POLICY OR INTERPRETATION NOT DIRECTLY RELATED TO REGULATIONS</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="PART 785" SEQ="2">HOURS WORKED</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="Subpart C" SEQ="1">Application of Principles</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="" SEQ="0">Sleeping Time and Certain Other Activities</PARENT>
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    <SECTNO>§ 785.23</SECTNO>
    <SUBJECT>Employees residing on employer's premises or working at home.</SUBJECT>

    <P>An employee who resides on his employer's premises on a permanent basis or for extended periods of time is not considered as working all the time he is on the premises. Ordinarily, he may engage in normal private pursuits and thus have enough time for eating, sleeping, entertaining, and other periods of complete freedom from all duties when he may leave the premises for purposes of his own. It is, of course, difficult to determine the exact hours worked under these circumstances and any reasonable agreement of the parties which takes into consideration all <PRTPAGE P="679"/>of the pertinent facts will be accepted. This rule would apply, for example, to the pumper of a stripper well who resides on the premises of his employer and also to a telephone operator who has the switchboard in her own home. (<E T="03">Skelly Oil Co.</E> v. <E T="03">Jackson,</E> 194 Okla. 183, 148 P. 2d 182 (Okla. Sup. Ct. 1944; <E T="03">Thompson</E> v. <E T="03">Loring Oil Co.,</E> 50 F. Supp. 213 (W.D. La. 1943).)</P>
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