- Agriculture
includes farming in all its branches and among other things includes the cultivation and tillage of the soil, dairying, the production, cultivation, growing, and harvesting of any agricultural or horticultural commodities (including commodities defined as agricultural commodities in section 1141j(g) 2 of title 12), the raising of livestock, bees, fur-bearing animals, or poultry, and any practices (including any forestry or lumbering operations) performed by a farmer or on a farm as an incident to or in conjunction with such farming operations, including preparation for market, delivery to storage or to market or to carriers for transportation to market.
- air carrier
has the meaning given such term in section 40102 of title 49.
- American vessel
includes any vessel which is documented or numbered under the laws of the United States.
- Commerce
means trade, commerce, transportation, transmission, or communication among the several States or between any State and any place outside thereof.
- crewmember
has the meaning given such term in section 1.1 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations).
- Elementary school
means a day or residential school which provides elementary education, as determined under State law.
- Employ
includes to suffer or permit to work.
- employee
means any individual employed by an employer.
- Employee in fire protection activities
means an employee, including a firefighter, paramedic, emergency medical technician, rescue worker, ambulance personnel, or hazardous materials worker, who—
- employee who maintains the right of way
means an employee who is a safety-related railroad employee described in section 20102(4)(C) of title 49.
- Employer
includes any person acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee and includes a public agency, but does not include any labor organization (other than when acting as an employer) or anyone acting in the capacity of officer or agent of such labor organization.
- Enterprise
means the related activities performed (either through unified operation or common control) by any person or persons for a common business purpose, and includes all such activities whether performed in one or more establishments or by one or more corporate or other organizational units including departments of an establishment operated through leasing arrangements, but shall not include the related activities performed for such enterprise by an independent contractor.
- Enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce
means an enterprise that—
- Goods
means goods (including ships and marine equipment), wares, products, commodities, merchandise, or articles or subjects of commerce of any character, or any part or ingredient thereof, but does not include goods after their delivery into the actual physical possession of the ultimate consumer thereof other than a producer, manufacturer, or processor thereof.
- Industry
means a trade, business, industry, or other activity, or branch or group thereof, in which individuals are gainfully employed.
- labor organization
means any organization of any kind, or any agency or employee representation committee or plan, in which employees participate and which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of dealing with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours of employment, or conditions of work.
- Man-day
means any day during which an employee performs any agricultural labor for not less than one hour.
- motorcoach services operator
means an entity that offers motorcoach services.
- new entrant into the workforce
means an individual who—
- Oppressive child labor
means a condition of employment under which (1) any employee under the age of sixteen years is employed by an employer (other than a parent or a person standing in place of a parent employing his own child or a child in his custody under the age of sixteen years in an occupation other than manufacturing or mining or an occupation found by the Secretary of Labor to be particularly hazardous for the employment of children between the ages of sixteen and eighteen years or detrimental to their health or well-being) in any occupation, or (2) any employee between the ages of sixteen and eighteen years is employed by an employer in any occupation which the Secretary of Labor shall find and by order declare to be particularly hazardous for the employment of children between such ages or detrimental to their health or well-being;
- overtime compensation
means the compensation required by subsection (a), and
- Person
means an individual, partnership, association, corporation, business trust, legal representative, or any organized group of persons.
- Produced
means produced, manufactured, mined, handled, or in any other manner worked on in any State;
- Public agency
means the Government of the United States;
- rail carrier
means an employer described in section 213(b)(2) of this title.
- Secondary school
means a day or residential school which provides secondary education, as determined under State law.
- Secretary
means the Secretary of Labor.
- sell
includes any sale, exchange, contract to sell, consignment for sale, shipment for sale, or other disposition.
- serious injury
means—
- State
means any State of the United States or the District of Columbia or any Territory or possession of the United States.
- student hours of employment
means hours during which students are employed in a retail or service establishment under certificates issued under this subsection.
- Tipped employee
means any employee engaged in an occupation in which he customarily and regularly receives more than $30 a month in tips.
- train crew
has the meaning given such term as used in chapter II of subtitle B of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations).