[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: 29CFR784.4]

[Page 665]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
         CHAPTER V--WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 784_PROVISIONS OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT APPLICABLE TO FISHING 
AND OPERATIONS ON AQUATIC PRODUCTS--Table of Contents
 
                            Subpart A_General
 
Sec. 784.4  Significance of official interpretations.

    The regulations in this part contain the official interpretations of 
the Department of Labor pertaining to the exemptions provided in 
sections 13(a)(5) and 13(b)(4) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, 
as amended. It is intended that the positions stated will serve as ``a 
practical guide to employers and 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, 138). These interpretations 
indicate the construction of the law which the Secretary of Labor and 
the Administrator believe to be correct and which will guide them 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they remain effective and are not modified, amended, rescinded, or 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.