Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 31 - Labor › 60 - MINIMUM WAGES › Part I - Definitions and General Provisions › Section 31-60-16 - Employee in bona fide professional capacity

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) For
				the purposes of said section
				31-58(f),
				"employee employed in a bona fide professional capacity" means any employee (1)
				whose primary duty consists of the performance of:
(A) work requiring knowledge of an advanced
				type in a field of science or learning customarily acquired by a prolonged
				course of specialized intellectual instruction and study, as distinguished from
				a general academic education and from an apprenticeship, and from training in
				the performance of routine mental, manual or physical processes or
(B) work that is original and creative in
				character in a recognized field of artistic endeavor, as opposed to work which
				can be produced by a person endowed with general manual or intellectual ability
				and training, and the result of which depends primarily on the invention,
				imagination or talent of the employee or
(C) teaching, tutoring, instructing or
				lecturing in the activity of imparting knowledge while employed and engaged in
				this activity as a teacher certified or recognized as such in the school system
				or educational establishment or institution by which he is employed; and (2)
				whose work requires the consistent exercise of discretion and judgment in its
				performance; and (3) whose work is predominantly intellectual and varied in
				character, as opposed to routine mental, manual, mechanical or physical work,
				and is of such character that the output produced or the result accomplished
				cannot be standardized in relation to a given period of time; and (4) who does
				not devote more than twenty per cent of his hours worked in the workweek to
				activities which are not an essential part of and necessarily incident to the
				work described in subdivisions (1) to (3), inclusive, of this section; and (5)
				who is compensated for his services on a salary or fee basis at a rate of not
				less than four hundred dollars per week exclusive of board, lodging or other
				facilities; provided this subdivision shall not apply in the case of an
				employee who is the holder of a valid license or certificate permitting the
				practice of law or medicine or any of their branches and who is actually
				engaged in the practice thereof, or in the case of an employee who is the
				holder of the requisite academic degree for the general practice of medicine
				and is engaged in an internship or resident program pursuant to the practice of
				medicine or any of its branches, or in the case of an employee employed and
				engaged as a teacher as provided in subdivision (1)(C) of this section, and
				provided an employee who is compensated on salary or fee basis at a rate of not
				less than four hundred seventy-five dollars per week exclusive of board,
				lodging or other facilities, and whose primary duty consists of the performance
				either of work described in subdivision (1) (A) or (C) of this section which
				includes work requiring the consistent exercise of discretion and judgment, or
				of work requiring invention, imagination or talent in a recognized field of
				artistic endeavor, shall be deemed to meet all of the requirements of this
				section.