[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: 29CFR783.26]

[Page 610]
 
                             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. 783.26  The section 6(b)(2) minimum wage requirement.

    Section 6(b), with paragraph (2) thereof, requires the employer to 
pay to an employee, ``if such employee is employed as a seaman on an 
American vessel, not less than the rate which will provide to the 
employee, for the period covered by the wage payment, wages equal to 
compensation at the hourly rate prescribed by paragraph (1) of this 
subsection for all hours during such period when he was actually on duty 
(including periods aboard ship when the employee was on watch or was, at 
the direction of a superior officer, performing work or standing by, but 
not including off-duty periods which are provided pursuant to the 
employment agreement).'' The ``hourly rate prescribed by'' paragraph (1) 
of the subsection is the minimum wage rate applicable according to the 
schedule shown in Sec. 783.23.