49 U.S.C. § 28301 — General
submitted 30 years ago by Pub. L. 104-287 to r/title-49-TRANSPORTATION · 224 words · no verdicts yet
This section sets 8 hours as a standard workday for certain railroad employees. It lists railroads that are excluded and two situations where a short railroad is included.
(a) Eight-hour day. — In labor and service contracts, 8 hours is a day’s work and the standard day used to determine an employee’s pay when the employee works for a railroad common carrier subject to subtitle IV and operates passenger or property trains traveling: (1) between States or between a State and the District of Columbia; (2) between places in the same U.S. territory or possession; (3) from the United States to an adjacent foreign country; or (4) through a foreign country between two places in the United States. (b) Application. — (1) Subsection (a) does not apply to: (A) an independently owned and operated railroad no more than 100 miles long; (B) an electric street railroad; or (C) an electric interurban railroad. (2) It does apply to an independently owned and operated railroad less than 100 miles long if: (A) its main business is leasing or providing terminal or transfer facilities to other railroads; or (B) it transfers freight between railroads or between railroads and industrial plants.
In contracts for labor and service, 8 hours shall be a day’s work and the standard day’s work for determining the compensation for services of an employee employed by a common carrier by railroad subject to subtitle IV of this title and actually engaged in any capacity in operating trains used for transporting passengers or property on railroads from—
a State of the United States or the District of Columbia to any other State or the District of Columbia;
one place in a territory or possession of the United States to another place in the same territory or possession;
a place in the United States to an adjacent foreign country; or
a place in the United States through a foreign country to any other place in the United States.
Subsection (a) of this section—
does not apply to—
an independently owned and operated railroad not exceeding one hundred miles in length;
an electric street railroad; and
an electric interurban railroad; but
does apply to an independently owned and operated railroad less than one hundred miles in length—
whose principal business is leasing or providing terminal or transfer facilities to other railroads; or
engaged in transfers of freight between railroads or between railroads and industrial plants.
Source credit: (Added Pub. L. 104–287, § 5(56)(A), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3394.)
- 1996Enacted · Pub. L. 104-287 · 110 Stat. 3394
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 104-287 on 1996-10-11.
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