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FAR 52.222-4 Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards-Overtime Compensation

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

Yes

(e) (verified): insert (a)–(d) in subcontracts that may require or involve the employment of laborers and mechanics, and require subs to repeat it in lower tiers; the paragraph carries no dollar threshold of its own

Form
substance — insert paragraphs (a)–(d)
Reaches
all tiers

Checked against acquisition.gov on 2026-08-04 · edition MAY 2018 · base v0.9.3 Read the text ↗

What it makes you produce

One item for your checklist.

  1. Something you write

    Days to weeks, and nobody outside your company has to agree to it.

    • Payroll and basic records for every laborer and mechanic — name and address, social security number, classification, hourly rate, daily and weekly hours, deductions and wages actually paid — kept until three years after the work is finished and open to inspection

      FAR 52.222-4(d)

When it is used

Prescription 22.305 (verified): contracts that may require the employment of laborers or mechanics, except those valued at or below $200,000, commercial products/services, work outside the US/territories, contracts solely under chapter 65, and supplies with incidental services not employing substantial labor. Flows down to the sub via (e), with no threshold of its own.

Read closely

Paragraph (a) is the rule itself: one and one half times the basic rate for hours over 40 in a week, for shop-floor and jobsite people rather than for engineering or administrative staff. Paragraphs (b) and (c) are the liability and the withholding. Paragraph (e) carries paragraphs (a) through (d) into subcontracts that may involve laborers or mechanics and requires the same again at lower tiers, with no dollar floor of its own.

The 12 templates that name it, with the line
143CORPDOC 3A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Fixed Price Non-Commercial Items under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 163155CORPDOC 4A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Cost-Reimbursement/T&M Subcontracts under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 183233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 857105Raytheon TC-002 — Supplement 1: Government Contract Provisions from the FARRTXline 46166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2258166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2200168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2291255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 956243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 1881240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 1688273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 721178AAR Component Services NY — U.S. Government Contract FAR and DFARS Clauses Incorporated by ReferenceAAR Corpline 595

Source: acquisition.gov, FAR 52.222-4 and 22.305 (verified 2026-08-04)

This is research, not legal advice. It states what the regulation says about this clause and cites the paragraph behind it. It does not rule on your order, and it does not rule on whether a prime's markings are correct.