[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: 29CFR783.22]

[Page 653-654]
 
                             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. 783.22  Pay standards for employees subject to ``old'' coverage of 
the Act.

    The 1961 amendments did not change the tests described in Sec. 
783.18 by which coverage based on the employee's individual activities 
is determined. Any employee whose employment satisfies these tests and 
would not have come within some exemption (such as section 13(a)(14)) in 
the Act prior to the

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1961 amendments is subject to the ``old'' provisions of the law and 
entitled to a minimum wage of at least $1.15 an hour beginning September 
3, 1961, and not less than $1.25 an hour beginning September 3, 1963 (29 
U.S.C. 206(a)(1)), unless expressly exempted by some provision of the 
amended Act. Such an employee is also entitled to overtime pay for hours 
worked in excess of 40 in any workweek at a rate not less than one and 
one-half times his regular rate of pay (29 U.S.C. 207(a)(1)), unless 
expressly exempt from overtime by some exemption such as section 
13(b)(6). (Minimum wage rates in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and 
American Samoa are governed by special provisions of the Act (26 U.S.C. 
206(a)(3); 206(c)(2).) Information on these rates is available at any 
office of the Wage and Hour Division.