[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
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[CITE: 29CFR783.20]

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                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
         CHAPTER V--WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 783_APPLICATION OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT TO EMPLOYEES EMPLOYED 
AS SEAMEN--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 783.20  Exemptions from the Act's provisions.

    The Act provides a number of specific exemptions from the general 
requirements previously described. Some are exemptions from the overtime 
provisions only. Others are from the child labor provisions only. 
Several are exemptions from both the minimum wage and the overtime 
requirements of the Act. Finally, there are some exemptions from all 
three--minimum wage, overtime pay, and child labor requirements. An 
examination of the terminology in which the exemptions from the general 
coverage of the Fair Labor Standards Act are stated discloses language 
patterns which reflect congressional intent. Thus, Congress specified in 
varying degree the criteria for application of each of the exemptions 
and in a number of instances differentiated as to whether employees are 
to be exempt because they are employed by a particular kind of employer, 
employed in a particular type of establishment, employed in a particular 
industry, employed in a particular capacity or occupation, or engaged in 
a specified operation. (See 29 U.S.C. 203(d); 207 (b), (c), (h); 213 
(a), (b), (c), (d). And see Addison v. Holly Hill, 322 U.S. 607; Walling 
v. Haden, 153 F. 2d 196, certiorari denied 328 U.S. 866; Mitchell v. 
Stinson, 217 F. 2d 210.) In general, there are no exemptions from the 
child labor requirements that apply in enterprises or establishments 
engaged in transportation or shipping (see part 570, subpart G of this 
chapter). Such enterprises or establishments will, however, be concerned 
with the exemption from overtime pay in section 13(b)(6) of the Act for 
employees employed as seamen and the exemption from the mimimum wage and 
overtime pay requirements provided by section 13(a)(14) for employees so 
employed on vessels other than American vessels. These exemptions, which 
are subject to the general rules stated in Sec. 783.21, are discussed 
at length in this part.