---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 C.F.R. § 783.27"
title: "29"
number: "783.27"
heading: "Scope of the provisions regarding “seamen”."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/29/783.27"
---

# §783.27. Scope of the provisions regarding “seamen”.


In accordance with the above provisions of the Act as amended, an employee employed as a seaman is exempt only from its overtime pay provisions under the new [section 13(b)(6)](/cfr/29/13.md?p=b-6), unless the vessel on which he is employed is not an American vessel. [Section 13(a)(14)](/cfr/29/13.md?p=a-14) as amended continues the prior exemption, from minimum wages as well as overtime pay, for any employees employed as a seaman on a vessel other than an American vessel. Thus, to come within this latter exemption an employee now must be “employed as” a “seaman” on a vessel other than an “American vessel”, while to come within the overtime exemption provided by [section 13(b)(6)](/cfr/29/13.md?p=b-6) an employee need only be “employed as” a “seaman”. The minimum wage requirements of the Act, as provided in [section 6(b)](/cfr/29/6.md?p=b) and paragraph (2) of that subsection apply if the employee is “employed as” a “seaman” on an “American vessel”. The meaning and scope of these key words, “employed as a seaman” and “American vessel” are discussed in subsequent sections of this part. Of course, if an employee is not “employed as” a “seaman” within the meaning of this term as used in the Act, these exemptions and [section 6(b)(2)](/cfr/29/6.md?p=b-2) would have no relevancy and his status under the Act would depend, as in the case of any other employee, upon the other facts of his employment, ([§§ 783.18 through 783.20](/cfr/29/783.18..783.20.md)).


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 1-19, 52 Stat. 1060, as amended; 29 U.S.C. 201-219.

### Source

Source: 27 FR 8309, Aug. 21, 1962, unless otherwise noted.