[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR541.5b]

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                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
         CHAPTER V--WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 541_DEFINING AND DELIMITING THE TERMS ``ANY EMPLOYEE EMPLOYED IN A 
 
                      Subpart A_General Regulations
 
Sec. 541.5b  Equal pay provisions of section 6(d) of the act apply to 

executive, administrative, and professional employees, and to outside 
salesmen.

    Effective July 1, 1972, the Fair Labor Standards Act was amended to 
include within the protection of the equal pay provisions those 
employees exempt from the minimum wage and overtime pay provisions as 
bona fide executive, administrative, and professional employees 
(including any employee employed in the capacity of academic 
administrative personnel or teacher in elementary or secondary schools), 
or in the capacity of outside salesmen under section 13(a)(1) of the 
act. Thus, for example, where an exempt administrative employee and 
another employee of the establishment are performing substantially 
``equal work,'' the sex discrimination prohibitions of section 6(d) are 
applicable with respect to any wage differential between those two 
employees.

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