§ 28301. General

• (a) 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—
  • (1) a State of the United States or the District of Columbia to any other State or the District of Columbia;
  • (2) one place in a territory or possession of the United States to another place in the same territory or possession;
  • (3) a place in the United States to an adjacent foreign country; or
  • (4) a place in the United States through a foreign country to any other place in the United States.
• (b) Subsection (a) of this section—
  • (1) does not apply to—
    • (A) an independently owned and operated railroad not exceeding one hundred miles in length;
    • (B) an electric street railroad; and
    • (C) an electric interurban railroad; but
  • (2) does apply to an independently owned and operated railroad less than one hundred miles in length—
    • (A) whose principal business is leasing or providing terminal or transfer facilities to other railroads; or
    • (B) engaged in transfers of freight between railroads or between railroads and industrial plants.