[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: 29CFR783.3]

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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. 783.3  Significance of official interpretations.

    This part contains the official interpretations of the Department of 
Labor pertaining to the provisions of section 6(b)(2) and the exemptions 
provided in sections 13(a)(14) and 13(b)(6) of the Act. It is intended 
that the positions stated concerning the Act will serve as ``a practical 
guide to employers and

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employees as to how the office representing the public interest in its 
enforcement will seek to apply it'' (Skidmore v. Swift, 323 U.S. 134). 
The Secretary of Labor and the Administrator will follow these 
interpretations in the performance of their duties under the Act, unless 
and until they are otherwise directed by authoritative decisions of the 
courts or conclude upon re-examination of an interpretation that it is 
incorrect. The interpretations contained herein may be relied upon in 
accordance with section 10 of the Portal-to-Portal Act (29 U.S.C. 251-
262), so long as they remain effective and are not modified, amended, 
rescinded, or determined by judicial authority to be incorrect.