_______________________________________________________ Wages
*Examples of Exemptions from Federal Minimum Wage Laws
Examples are illustrative and non-inclusive. Refer to page C-46.
Exempt from
Overtime Pay
Partial Exemption from
Overtime Pay
Exempt from BOTH
Minimum Wage and
Overtime Pay
·
Certain
commissioned
employees of retail or
service businesses:
auto, truck, trailer,
farm implement, boat,
or aircraft
salesworkers, or parts
clerks and mechanics
servicing autos,
trucks, or farm
implements, who are
employed by non-
manufacturing
establishments
primarily engaged in
selling these items to
ultimate purchasers
·
Employees
of
railroads and air
carriers, taxi drivers,
certain employees of
motor carriers,
seamen on American
vessels, and local
delivery employees
paid on approved trip
rate plans
·
Announcers,
news
editors, and chief
engineers of certain
non-metropolitan
broadcasting stations
·
Domestic
service
workers living in the
employer's residence
·
Employees of motion
picture theaters
·
Farm
workers
·
Workers listed as
exempt from minimum
wage
·
Employees engaged in
certain operations on
agricultural commodities
·
Employees of certain bulk
petroleum distributors
·
Hospitals and residential
care establishments may
adopt, by agreement with
their employees, a 14-day
work period instead of the
usual 7-day work week if
employees are paid at
least time and one-half
their regular rates for
hours worked over 8 in a
day or 80 in a 14-day work
period, whichever is the
greater number of
overtime hours
·
Employees without high
school diplomas or who
have not attained 8th
grade level education can
be required to spend up to
10 hours in a work-week
engaged in remedial
reading or training in other
basic skills without
receiving time and one-
half overtime pay for these
hours. However, the
employees must receive
their normal wages for
hours spent in such
training and the training
must not be job specific.
·
Executive,
administrative,
and professional
employees, including
teachers and academic
administrative personnel
in elementary and
secondary schools
·
Outside sales employees
·
Employees of certain
computer-related
occupations, as defined in
Department of Labor
regulations
·
Employees of certain
seasonal amusement or
recreational
establishments
·
Employees of certain
small newspapers and
employees engaged in
newspaper delivery
·
Seamen employed on
foreign vessels and
employees engaged in
fishing operations
·
Farm workers employed
by anyone who used no
more than 500 "man-days"
of farm labor in any
calendar quarter of the
preceding calendar year
·
Casual baby-sitters and
persons employed as
companions to the elderly
or infirm
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