20 C.F.R. § 638.507 Work experience.
Title 20 - Employees' Benefits
(a) The center operator shall emphasize and implement programs of work experience for students through center program activities or through arrangement with employers. Work experience shall be under actual working conditions and should enhance the employability, responsibility, and confidence of the students. (b) The following limitations shall be observed in establishing work experience programs: (1) Students shall only be assigned to work meeting the safety standards of §638.803 of this part. (2) Any work experience arranged for employment not covered by a Federal, State, or local minimum wage law shall have prior regional office approval. (3) When work experience with pay is arranged, the student, for applicable wage provisions of the Davis-Bacon Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Service Contract Act, and other applicable minimum wage laws, shall be considered a joint employee of the Job Corps and the work experience employer. (i) The wages paid by Job Corps (including the reasonable cost to Job Corps of room, board, and other facilities, as well as clothing and living allowances) shall be no less than the federal minimum wage rate set forth in section (6)(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) for up to 25 hours a week. The work experience employer shall pay the student, in cash, any wages above the FLSA minimum whenever such additional amounts are required by the Davis-Bacon Act, the Service Contract Act, the State or local minimum wage law, or other applicable minimum wage law. For any time in excess of 25 hours per week, the work experience employer shall pay the student, in cash, no less than the entire wage at the wage rate required by applicable law. (ii) In addition to the cash wages required to be paid by work experience employers by paragraph (b)(3)(i) of this section, work experience employers, after the first six weeks of work by a student, shall also pay additional cash wages to the student at an hourly rate of 25 percent of the wage set forth in section 6(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Title 20: Employees' Benefits
PART 638—JOB CORPS PROGRAM UNDER TITLE IV-B OF THE JOB TRAINING PARTNERSHIP ACT
Subpart E—Center Operations
§ 638.507 Work experience.
