Elizabeth Dole, Secretary of Labor, U.S. Department of Labor v. Petroleum Treaters, Inc.

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• recognizing that in 1961 Congress revised the seaman exemption in certain respects, but did not change DOL’s interpretive definition as to who qualifies as seamen
• holding that workers who “spent at least half of their time maintaining and servicing . . . oil wells, a ‘nonseamen’ duty,” were not employed as seamen
• determining that the FLSA’s lack of reference to the Jones Act in defining exemptions was significant because the FLSA specifically mentioned several other statutes
• noting that the determination of whether a particular worker is eligible for the seaman exemption “calls for an examination of the nature of the work performed by the employees and of the comparative amount of seamen versus nonseamen duties”

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