---
kind: "unit"
title: "29"
title_heading: "Labor"
key: "subtB/chV/subchB/part783"
level: "part"
label: "Part 783"
heading: "Application of the Fair Labor Standards Act to Employees Employed as Seamen"
release: "ecfr-current"
date: "2026-08-27"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/29/subtB-chV-subchB-part783"
sections_count: 52
---

# Part 783 — Application of the Fair Labor Standards Act to Employees Employed as Seamen

Title 29 C.F.R. — Labor › Subtitle B — Regulations Relating to Labor › Chapter V — Wage and Hour Division, Department of Labor › Subchapter B — Statements of General Policy or Interpretation Not Directly Related to Regulations

## Sections

- [§783.0. Purpose of this part.](/cfr/29/783.0.md)
- [§783.1. General scope of the Act.](/cfr/29/783.1.md)
- [§783.2. Matters discussed in this part.](/cfr/29/783.2.md)
- [§783.3. Significance of official interpretations.](/cfr/29/783.3.md)
- [§783.4. Basic support for interpretations.](/cfr/29/783.4.md)
- [§783.5. Interpretations made, continued, and superseded by this part.](/cfr/29/783.5.md)
- [§783.6. Definitions of terms used in the Act.](/cfr/29/783.6.md)
- [§783.7. “Employer”, “employee”, and “employ”.](/cfr/29/783.7.md)
- [§783.8. “Person”.](/cfr/29/783.8.md)
- [§783.9. “Enterprise”.](/cfr/29/783.9.md)
- [§783.10. “Establishment”.](/cfr/29/783.10.md)
- [§783.11. “Enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce”.](/cfr/29/783.11.md)
- [§783.12. “Commerce”.](/cfr/29/783.12.md)
- [§783.13. “Production”.](/cfr/29/783.13.md)
- [§783.14. “Goods”.](/cfr/29/783.14.md)
- [§783.15. “State”.](/cfr/29/783.15.md)
- [§783.16. “Wage”.](/cfr/29/783.16.md)
- [§783.17. “American vessel”.](/cfr/29/783.17.md)
- [§783.18. Commerce activities of employees.](/cfr/29/783.18.md)
- [§783.19. Commerce activities of enterprises in which employee is employed.](/cfr/29/783.19.md)
- [§783.20. Exemptions from the Act's provisions.](/cfr/29/783.20.md)
- [§783.21. Guiding principles for applying coverage and exemption provisions.](/cfr/29/783.21.md)
- [§783.22. Pay standards for employees subject to “old” coverage of the Act.](/cfr/29/783.22.md)
- [§783.23. Pay standards for “newly covered” employees.](/cfr/29/783.23.md)
- [§783.24. The section 13(a)(14) exemption.](/cfr/29/783.24.md)
- [§783.25. The section 13(b)(6) exemption.](/cfr/29/783.25.md)
- [§783.26. The section 6(b)(2) minimum wage requirement.](/cfr/29/783.26.md)
- [§783.27. Scope of the provisions regarding “seamen”.](/cfr/29/783.27.md)
- [§783.28. General legislative history.](/cfr/29/783.28.md)
- [§783.29. Adoption of the exemption in the original 1938 Act.](/cfr/29/783.29.md)
- [§783.30. The 1961 Amendments.](/cfr/29/783.30.md)
- [§783.31. Criteria for employment “as a seaman.”](/cfr/29/783.31.md)
- [§783.32. “Seaman” includes crew members.](/cfr/29/783.32.md)
- [§783.33. Employment “as a seaman” depends on the work actually performed.](/cfr/29/783.33.md)
- [§783.34. Employees aboard vessels who are not “seamen”.](/cfr/29/783.34.md)
- [§783.35. Employees serving as “watchmen” aboard vessels in port.](/cfr/29/783.35.md)
- [§783.36. Barge tenders.](/cfr/29/783.36.md)
- [§783.37. Enforcement policy for non-seaman's work.](/cfr/29/783.37.md)
- [§783.38. Statutory definition of “American vessel”.](/cfr/29/783.38.md)
- [§783.39. “Vessel” includes all means of water transportation.](/cfr/29/783.39.md)
- [§783.40. “Documented” vessel.](/cfr/29/783.40.md)
- [§783.41. “Numbered” vessel.](/cfr/29/783.41.md)
- [§783.42. Vessels neither “documented” nor “numbered”.](/cfr/29/783.42.md)
- [§783.43. Computation of seaman's minimum wage.](/cfr/29/783.43.md)
- [§783.44. Board and lodging as wages.](/cfr/29/783.44.md)
- [§783.45. Deductions from wages.](/cfr/29/783.45.md)
- [§783.46. Hours worked.](/cfr/29/783.46.md)
- [§783.47. Off-duty periods.](/cfr/29/783.47.md)
- [§783.48. Factors determining application of exemptions.](/cfr/29/783.48.md)
- [§783.49. Workweek unit in applying the exemptions.](/cfr/29/783.49.md)
- [§783.50. Work exempt under another section of the Act.](/cfr/29/783.50.md)
- [§783.51. Seamen on a fishing vessel.](/cfr/29/783.51.md)