INTRODUCTORY

• § 783.0 - Purpose of this part.

• § 783.1 - General scope of the Act.

• § 783.2 - Matters discussed in this part.

• § 783.3 - Significance of official interpretations.

• § 783.4 - Basic support for interpretations.

• § 783.5 - Interpretations made, continued, and superseded by this part.

SOME BASIC DEFINITIONS

• § 783.6 - Definitions of terms used in the Act.

• § 783.7 - “Employer”, “employee”, and “employ”.

• § 783.8 - “Person”.

• § 783.9 - “Enterprise”.

• § 783.10 - “Establishment”.

• § 783.11 - “Enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce”.

• § 783.12 - “Commerce”.

• § 783.13 - “Production”.

• § 783.14 - “Goods”.

• § 783.15 - “State”.

• § 783.16 - “Wage”.

• § 783.17 - “American vessel”.

APPLICATION IN GENERAL OF THE ACT'S PROVISIONS

• § 783.18 - Commerce activities of employees.

• § 783.19 - Commerce activities of enterprises in which employee is employed.

• § 783.20 - Exemptions from the Act's provisions.

• § 783.21 - Guiding principles for applying coverage and exemption provisions.

• § 783.22 - Pay standards for employees subject to “old” coverage of the Act.

• § 783.23 - Pay standards for “newly covered” employees.

THE STATUTORY PROVISIONS REGARDING SEAMEN

• § 783.24 - The section 13(a)(14) exemption.

• § 783.25 - The section 13(b)(6) exemption.

• § 783.26 - The section 6(b)(2) minimum wage requirement.

• § 783.27 - Scope of the provisions regarding “seamen”.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY AND JUDICIAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE EXEMPTIONS

• § 783.28 - General legislative history.

• § 783.29 - Adoption of the exemption in the original 1938 Act.

• § 783.30 - The 1961 Amendments.

WHO IS “EMPLOYED AS A SEAMAN”

• § 783.31 - Criteria for employment “as a seaman.”

• § 783.32 - “Seaman” includes crew members.

• § 783.33 - Employment “as a seaman” depends on the work actually performed.

• § 783.34 - Employees aboard vessels who are not “seamen”.

• § 783.35 - Employees serving as “watchmen” aboard vessels in port.

• § 783.36 - Barge tenders.

• § 783.37 - Enforcement policy for non-seaman's work.

WHAT IS AN “AMERICAN VESSEL”

• § 783.38 - Statutory definition of “American vessel”.

• § 783.39 - “Vessel” includes all means of water transportation.

• § 783.40 - “Documented” vessel.

• § 783.41 - “Numbered” vessel.

• § 783.42 - Vessels neither “documented” nor “numbered”.

COMPUTATION OF WAGES AND HOURS

• § 783.43 - Computation of seaman's minimum wage.

• § 783.44 - Board and lodging as wages.

• § 783.45 - Deductions from wages.

• § 783.46 - Hours worked.

• § 783.47 - Off-duty periods.

APPLICATION OF THE EXEMPTIONS

• § 783.48 - Factors determining application of exemptions.

• § 783.49 - Workweek unit in applying the exemptions.

• § 783.50 - Work exempt under another section of the Act.

• § 783.51 - Seamen on a fishing vessel.