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Code · STATUTE-COMPILATIONS · Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. · Sec. 18

Sec. 18. relation to other laws

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## Sec. 18 relation to other laws ###
(a)No provision of this Act or of any order thereunder shall excuse noncompliance with any Federal or State law or municipal ordinance establishing a minimum wage higher than the minimum wage established under this Act or a maximum workweek lower than the maximum workweek established under this Act, and no provision of this Act relating to the employment of child labor shall justify noncompliance with any Federal or State law or municipal ordinance establishing a higher standard than the standard established under this Act. No provision of this Act shall justify any employer in reducing a wage paid by him which is in excess of the applicable minimum wage under this Act, or justify any employer in increasing hours of employment maintained by him which are shorter than the maximum hours applicable under this Act. ###
(b)Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act (other than section 13(f)) or any other law— ####
(1)any Federal employee in the Canal Zone engaged in employment of the kind described in section 5102(c)(7) of title 5, United States Code, and ####
(2)any employee employed in a nonappropriated fund instrumentality under the jurisdiction of the Armed Forces, shall have his basic compensation fixed or adjusted at a wage rate that is not less than the appropriate wage rate provided for in section 6(a)(1) of this Act (except that the wage rate provided for in section 6(b) shall apply to any employee who performed services during the workweek in a work place within the Canal Zone), and shall have his overtime compensation set at an hourly rate not less than the overtime rate provided for in section 7(a)(1) of this Act. **[**[29 U.S.C. 218](/us/usc/t29/s218)**]** Enacted June 25, 1938, ch. 676, sec. 18, 52 Stat. 1069; amended September 23, 1966, P.L. 89–601, title III, sec. 306, 80 Stat. 841; amended September 11, 1967, P.L. 90–83, sec. 8, 81 Stat. 222.
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