[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR530.1]

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                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
         CHAPTER V--WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 530_EMPLOYMENT OF HOMEWORKERS IN CERTAIN INDUSTRIES--Table of 
Contents
 
                            Subpart A_General
 
Sec. 530.1  Definitions.




                            Subpart A_General

Sec.
530.1 Definitions.
530.2 Restriction of homework.
530.3 Application forms for individual homeworker certificates.
530.4 Terms and conditions for the issuance of individual homeworker 
          certificates.
530.5 Investigation.
530.6 Termination of individual homeworker certificates.
530.7 Revocation and cancellation of individual homeworker certificates.
530.8 Preservation of individual homeworker certificates.
530.9 Records and reports.
530.10 Delegation of authority to grant, deny, or cancel an individual 
          homeworker certificate.
530.11 Petition for review.
530.12 Special provisions.

               Subpart B_Homeworker Employer Certificates

530.101 General.
530.102 Requests for employer certificates.
530.103 Employer assurances.
530.104 Bonding or security payments.
530.105 Investigations.

     Subpart C_Denial/Revocation of Homeworker Employer Certificates

530.201 Conflict with State law.
530.202 Piece rates--work measurement.
530.203 Outstanding violations and open investigations.
530.204 Discretionary denial or revocation.
530.205 Mandatory denial or revocation.
530.206 Special circumstances.

                     Subpart D_Civil Money Penalties

530.301 General.
530.302 Amounts of civil money penalties.
530.303 Considerations in determining amounts.
530.304 Procedures for assessment.

                   Subpart E_Administrative Procedures

530.401 Applicability of procedures and rules.
530.402 Notice of determination.
530.403 Request for hearing.
530.404 Referral to Administrative Law Judge.
530.405 General.
530.406 Decision and order of Administrative Law Judge.
530.407 Procedures for initiating and undertaking review.
530.408 Notice of the Secretary to review decision.
530.409 Final decision of the Secretary.
530.410 Special procedures.
530.411 Emergency certificate revocation procedures.
530.412 Alternative summary proceedings.
530.413 Certification of the record.
530.414 Equal Access to Justice Act.

    Authority: Sec. 11, 52 Stat. 1066 (29 U.S.C. 211) as amended by sec. 
9, 63 Stat. 910 (29 U.S.C. 211(d)); Secretary's Order No. 6-84, 49 FR 
32473, August 14, 1984; and Employment Standards Order No. 85-01, June 
5, 1985.

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    Source: 24 FR 729, Feb. 3, 1959, unless otherwise noted.



    (a) The meaning of the terms person, employ, employer, employee, 
goods, and production, as used in this part, is the same as in the Fair 
Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended.
    (b) Administrator as used in this part means the Administrator of 
the Wage and Hour Division, Employment Standards Administration, U.S. 
Department of Labor, or an authorized representative of the 
Administrator.
    (c) Industrial homeworker and homeworker, as used in this part, mean 
any employee employed or suffered or permitted to perform industrial 
homework for an employer.
    (d) Industrial homework, as used in this part, means the production 
by any person in or about a home, apartment, tenement, or room in a 
residential establishment of goods for an employer who suffers or 
permits such production, regardless of the source (whether obtained from 
an employer or elsewhere) of the materials used by the homeworker in 
such production.
    (e) The women's apparel industry is defined as follows: The 
production of women's, misses' and juniors' dresses, washable service 
garments, blouses, and neckwear from woven or purchased knit fabric; 
women's, misses', children's and infants' underwear, nightwear, and 
negligees from woven fabrics; corsets and other body supporting garments 
from any material; other garments similar to the foregoing; and infants; 
and children's outerwear.
    (f) The jewelry manufacturing industry is defined as follows:
    (1)(i) The manufacturing, processing, or assembling, wholly or 
partially from any material, of jewelry, commonly or commercially so 
known. Jewelry as used herein includes without limitation, religious, 
school, college, and fraternal insignia; articles of ornament or 
adornment designed to be worn on apparel or carried on or about the 
person, including, without limitation, cigar and cigarette cases, 
holders, and lighters; watch cases; metal mesh bags and metal watch 
bracelets; and chain, mesh, and parts for use in the manufacture of any 
of the articles included in this definition. Jewelry as used in this 
part does not include pocket knives, cigar cutters, badges, emblems, 
military and naval insignia, belt buckles, and handbag and pocketbook 
frames and clasps, or commercial compacts and vanity cases, except when 
made from or embellished with precious metals or precious, semiprecious, 
synthetic or imitation stones, or the assaying, refining, and smelting 
of base or precious metals.
    (ii) The term parts as used in paragraph (e)(1)(i) of this section 
does not include parts which are used predominantly for products other 
than jewelry, such as springs, blades, and nail files. The term 
commercial compacts and vanity cases as used means compacts and vanity 
cases which bear the trade name or mark of a cosmetic manufacturer and 
are made for the purpose of distributing or advertising said cosmetics.
    (2) The manufacturing, cutting, pol ishing, encrusting, engraving, 
and setting of precious, semiprecious, synthetic, and imitation stones.
    (3) The manufacturing, drilling, and stringing of pearls, imitation 
pearls, and beads designed for use in the manufacture of jewelry.
    (4) The term hand-fashioned jewelry as used in Sec. 530.12(b) means 
articles of jewelry commonly known as genuine Navajo, Pueblo, Hopi, or 
Zuni handmade jewelry which in all elements of design, fashioning and 
ornamentation are handmade by methods and with the help of only such 
devices as permit the maker to determine the shape and design of each 
individual product: Provided, That silver used in the making of such 
jewelry shall be of at least nine hundred fineness, and that turquoise 
and other stones used shall be genuine stones, uncolored and untreated 
by artificial means: And provided further, That power machinery is 
permitted in the production of findings, in the cutting and polishing of 
stones, in the buffing and polishing of completed products, and in 
incidental functions. Equipment specifically prohibited shall include 
hand presses, foot presses, drop hammers, and similar equipment: And 
provided further, That solder may be of less silver content than nine 
hundred;

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And provided further, That findings may be mechanically made of any 
metal by Indians or others: And provided further, That turquoise and 
other stones may be cut and polished by Indians or others without 
restrictions as to methods or equipment used.
    (g) The knitted outerwear industry is defined as follows: The 
knitting from any yarn or mixture of yarns and the further 
manufacturing, dyeing or other finishing of knitted garments, knitted 
garment sections, or knitted garment accessories for use as external 
apparel or covering which are partially or completely manufactured in 
the same establishment as that where the knitting process is performed; 
and the manufacture of bathing suits from any purchased fabric: 
Provided, That the manufacturing, dyeing or other finishing of the 
following shall not be included:
    (1) Knitted fabric, as distinguished from garment sections or 
garments, for sale as such.
    (2) Fulled suitings, coatings, topcoatings, and overcoatings.
    (3) Garments or garment accessories made from purchased fabric, 
except bathing suits.
    (4) Gloves or mittens.
    (5) Hosiery.
    (6) Knitted garments or garment accessories for use as underwear, 
sleeping wear, or negligees.
    (7) Fleece-lined garments made from knitted fabric containing cotton 
only or containing any mixture of cotton and not more than 25 percent, 
by weight, of wool or animal fiber other than silk.
    (8) Knitted shirts of cotton or any synthetic fiber or any mixture 
of such fibers which have been knit on machinery of 10-cut or fine: 
Provided, That this exception shall not be construed to exclude from the 
knitted outerwear industry and the manufacturing, dyeing, or other 
finishing of knitted shirts made in the same establishment as that where 
the knitting process is performed, if such shirts are made wholly or in 
part of fibers other than those specified in this clause, or if such 
shirts of any fiber are knit on machinery coarser than 10-cut.
    (h) The gloves and mittens industry is defined as follows: The 
production of gloves and mittens from any material or combination of 
materials, except athletic gloves and mittens.
    (i) The button and buckle manufacturing industry is defined as 
follows: The manufacture of buttons, buckles, and slides, and the 
manufacture of blanks and parts for such articles from any material 
except metal, for use on apparel.
    (j) The handkerchief manufacturing industry is defined as follows: 
The manufacture of men's, women's and children's handkerchiefs, plain or 
ornamented, from any materials.
    (k) The embroideries industry is defined as follows: The production 
of all kinds of hand and machine-made embroideries and ornamental 
stitchings, including but not by way of limitation, tucking shirring, 
smocking, hemstitching, hand rolling, fagoting, Bonnez embroidery, 
appliqueing, crochet beading, hand drawing, machine drawing, rhine stone 
trimming, sequin trimming, spangle trimming, eyelets, passementerie, 
pleating, the application of rhine stones and nailheads, stamping and 
perforating of designs, Schifli embroidery and laces, burnt-out laces 
and velvets, Swiss handmachine embroidery, thread splitting, embroidery 
thread cutting, scallop cutting, lace cutting, lace making-up, making-up 
of embroidered yard goods, straight cutting of embroidery and cutting 
out of embroidery, embroidery trimmings, bindings (not made in textile 
establishments), pipings and emblems: Provided, That (1) the foregoing 
when produced or performed by a manufacturer of a garment, fabric or 
other article for use on such garment, fabric or other article, and (2) 
the manufacture of covered buttons and buckles, shall not be included.
    (l) As used throughout this part the terms ``Secretary'' or 
``Secretary of Labor'' shall mean the Secretary of Labor, U.S. 
Department of Labor, or his or her designee.

[24 FR 729, Feb. 3, 1959, as amended at 46 FR 50349, Oct. 9, 1981; 49 FR 
22036, May 24, 1984; 53 FR 45722, Nov. 10, 1988; 61 FR 19986, May 3, 
1996]