# 29 CFR § 779.301: Statutory provisions > Federal · Regulations · In force URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-29-779.301 ## Section - **Citation:** 29 CFR § 779.301 - **Heading:** Statutory provisions - **Jurisdiction:** Federal - **Kind:** Regulations - **Status:** In force - **Text as of:** September 22, 2026 - **Source:** Publisher's official text - **Location:** Title 29—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 > PART 779—THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT AS APPLIED TO RETAILERS OF GOODS OR SERVICES > Subpart D—Exemptions for Certain Retail or Service Establishments > General Principles ## Text (a) Section 13(a) (2), (4), (11), and section 13(b)(18) of the Act, as amended, grant exemption from the minimum wage provisions of section 6 and the maximum hours provisions of section 7 as follows: (1) Section 13(a)(2) exempts from minimum wages and overtime pay: Any employee employed by any retail or service establishment (except an establishment or employee engaged in laundering, cleaning, or repairing clothing or fabrics or an establishment engaged in the operation of a hospital, institution, or school described in section 3(s)(4), if more than 50 per centum of such establishment's annual dollar volume of sales of goods or services is made within the State in which the establishment is located, and such establishment is not in an enterprise described in section 3(s) or such establishment has an annual dollar volume of sales which is less than $250,000 (exclusive of excise taxes at the retail level which are separately stated). A “retail or service establishment” shall mean an establishment 75 per centum of whose annual dollar volume of sales of goods or services (or of both) is not for resale and is recognized as retail sales or services in the particular industry. (2) Section 13(a)(4) exempts from minimum wages and overtime pay: Any employee employed by an establishment which qualifies as an exempt retail establishment under clause (2) of this sub-section and is recognized as a retail establishment in the particular industry notwithstanding that such establishment makes or processes at the retail establishment the goods that it sells: Provided, That more than 85 per centum of such establishment's annual dollar volume of sales of goods so made or processed is made within the State in which the establishment is located. (3) Section 13(a)(11) exempts from minimum wages and overtime pay: Any employee or proprietor in a retail or service establishment which qualifies as an exempt retail or service establishment under clause (2) of this subsection with respect to whom the provisions of sections 6 and 7 would not otherwise apply, engaged in handling telegraphic messages for the public under an agency or contract arrangement with a telegraph company where the telegraph message revenue of such agency does not exceed $500 a month. (4) Section 13(b)(18) exempts from overtime pay only: Any employee of a retail or service establishment who is employed primarily in connection with the preparation or offering of food or beverages for human consumption, either on the premises, or by such services as catering, banquet, box lunch, or curb or counter service, to the public, to employees, or to members or guests of members of clubs. (b) Sections 13(a)(2), (4), (13), (19), and (20) of the prior Act granted exemptions from both the minimum wage provisions of section 6 and the maximum hours provisions of section 7 as follows: (1) Section 13(a)(2) exempted: Any employee employed by any retail or service establishment, more than 50 per centum of which establishment's annual dollar volume of sales of goods or services is made within the state in which the establishment is located, if such establishment— (i) Is not in an enterprise described in section 3(s), or (ii) Is in such an enterprise and is a hotel, motel or restaurant, or motion picture theater; or is an amusement or recreational establishment that operates on a seasonal basis, or (iii) Is in such an enterprise and is a hospital, or an institution which is primarily engaged in the care of the sick, the aged, the mentally ill or defective, residing on the premises of such institution, or a school for physically or mentally handicapped or gifted children, or (iv) Is in such an enterprise and has an annual dollar volume of sales (exclusive of excise taxes at the retail level which are separately stated) which is less than $250,000. A “retail or service establishment” shall mean an establishment 75 per centum of whose annual dollar volume of sales of goods or services (or both) is not for resale and is recognized as retail sales or services in the particular industry. (2) Section 13(a)(4) provided the same exemption as it now does. (3) Section 13(a)(13) provided the same exemption as section 13(a)(11) of the present Act. (4) Section 13(a)(19) exempted: Any employee of a retail or service establishment which is primarily engaged in the business of selling automobiles, trucks, or farm implements. (5) Section 13(a)(20) exempted those employees who are now exempt from the overtime provisions only under section 13(b)(18) of the present Act. (c) Employees who were exempt from the minimum wage and overtime pay requirements under a provision of the prior Act set forth in paragraph (b) of this section, but are no longer exempt from one or both of such requirements under the present Act must be paid minimum wages or overtime pay, as the case may be, in accordance with the pay standards provided for newly covered employment, in any workweek when they perform work within the individual or enterprise coverage of the Act. ## Nearby sections - [29 CFR § 779.300 § 779.300 Purpose of subpart.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-29-779.300.md) - [29 CFR § 779.301 § 779.301 Statutory provisions.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-29-779.301.md) - [29 CFR § 779.302 § 779.302 Exemptions depend on character of establishment.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-29-779.302.md) - [29 CFR § 779.303 § 779.303 “Establishment” defined; distinguished from “enterprise” and “business.”](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-29-779.303.md) - [29 CFR § 779.304 § 779.304 Illustrations of a single establishment.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-29-779.304.md) - [29 CFR § 779.305 § 779.305 Separate establishments on the same premises.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-29-779.305.md) - [29 CFR § 779.306 § 779.306 Leased departments not separate establishments.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-29-779.306.md) - [29 CFR § 779.307 § 779.307 Meaning and scope of “employed by” and “employee of.”](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-29-779.307.md) - [29 CFR § 779.308 § 779.308 Employed within scope of exempt business.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-29-779.308.md) - [29 CFR § 779.309 § 779.309 Employed “in” but not “by.”](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-29-779.309.md) - [29 CFR § 779.310 § 779.310 Employees of employers operating multi-unit businesses.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-29-779.310.md) - [29 CFR § 779.311 § 779.311 Employees working in more than one establishment of same employer.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-29-779.311.md) - [29 CFR § 779.312 § 779.312 “Retail or service establishment”, defined in section 13(a)(2).](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-29-779.312.md) - [29 CFR § 779.313 § 779.313 Requirements summarized.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-29-779.313.md) --- Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-29-779.301. 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