[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: 29CFR783.28]

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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. 783.28  General legislative history.

    As originally enacted in 1938, section 13(a)(3) of the Fair Labor 
Standards Act exempted from both the minimum wage and overtime pay 
requirements ``any employee employed as a seaman'' (52 Stat. 1050). In 
1949 when several amendments were made to the Act (63 Stat. 910), this 
exemption was not changed except that it was renumbered section 
13(a)(14). In the 1961 amendments (75 Stat. 65), a like exemption was 
retained but it was limited to one employed as a seaman on a vessel 
other than an American vessel (section 13(a)(14)); an overtime exemption 
was provided for all employees employed as seamen (section 13(b)(6)), 
and those employed as seamen on an American vessel were brought within 
the minimum wage provisions (sec. 6(b)(2)).