---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 C.F.R. § 471.4"
title: "29"
number: "471.4"
heading: "What employers are not covered under this part?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/29/471.4"
---

# §471.4. What employers are not covered under this part?

- (a) The following employers are excluded from the definition of “employer” in the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), and are not covered by the requirements of this part:
  - (1) The United States or any wholly owned Government corporation;
  - (2) Any Federal Reserve Bank;
  - (3) Any State or political subdivision thereof;
  - (4) Any person subject to the Railway Labor Act;
  - (5) Any labor organization (other than when acting as an employer); or
  - (6) **Anyone acting in the capacity of officer or agent of such labor organization.**
- (b) Additionally, employers exclusively employing workers who are excluded from the definition of “employee” under the NLRA are not covered by the requirements of this part. Those excluded employees are employed:
  - (1) As agricultural laborers;
  - (2) In the domestic service of any family or person at his home;
  - (3) By his or her parent or spouse;
  - (4) As an independent contractor;
  - (5) As a supervisor as defined under the NLRA;
  - (6) By an employer subject to the Railway Labor Act; or
  - (7) By any other person who is not an employer as defined in the NLRA

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 40 U.S.C. 101 et seq.; Executive Order 13496, 74 FR 6107, February 4, 2009; Secretary's Order No. 7-2009, 74 FR 58834, November 13, 2009; Secretary's Order No. 01-2020.

### Source

Source: 75 FR 28397, May 20, 2010, unless otherwise noted.