[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 29, Volume 3]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 29CFR780.516]



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                             TITLE 29--LABOR

 

         CHAPTER V--WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

 

PART 780_EXEMPTIONS APPLICABLE TO AGRICULTURE, PROCESSING OF AGRICULTURAL 

COMMODITIES, AND RELATED SUBJECTS UNDER THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT--Table 

of Contents

 

Subpart F_Employment or Agricultural Employees in Processing Shade-Grown 

Tobacco; Exemption From Minimum Wage and Overtime Pay Requirements Under 

                            Section 13(a)(14)

 

Sec.  780.516  ``Prior to the stemming process.''



    The exemption provided by section 13(a)(14) applies only to 

employees whose processing operations on shade-grown tobacco are 

performed ``prior to the stemming process.'' (See H. Rept. No. 75, 87th 

Cong., first sess., p. 26). This means that an employee engaged in 

stemming, the removal of the midrib from the tobacco leaf (McComb v. 

Puerto Rico Tobacco Marketing Co-op. Ass'n., 80 F. Supp. 953, affirmed 

181 F. 2d 697), or in any operations on the tobacco which are performed 

after stemming has begun will not come within the exemption. Stemming 

and all subsequent operations are nonexempt work.