Mass-Peculiarities: An Employers Guide to Wage & Hour Law in the Bay State 2022 Edition

© 2022 Seyfarth Shaw LLP Massachusetts Wage & Hour Peculiarities, 2022 ed. | 105 uses advanced knowledge (typically attained through a formal academic program) to analyze, interpret, or make deductions from varying facts or circumstances. 580 For purposes of the exemption, advanced knowledge cannot be attained at the high school level. 581 (b) Fields of Science or Learning Pursuant to the federal regulations, the term “field of science or learning” encompasses but is not limited to the following professions: • Law • Medicine • Theology • Accounting • Actuarial computation • Engineering • Architecture • Teaching • Various types of physical, chemical, and biological sciences • Pharmacy • Other occupations that have a recognized professional status (as distinguished from the mechanical arts or skilled trades, where the knowledge could be of a fairly advanced type but is not in a field of science or learning) 582 (c) Customarily Acquired by a Prolonged Course of Specialized Intellectual Instruction The learned professional exemption is restricted to professions for which specialized academic training is a standard prerequisite for entrance into the profession. 583 The best evidence that an 580 Id . at 30. 581 29 C.F.R. § 541.301(b). 582 Id . 583 29 C.F.R. § 541.301(d).