Guidance Search
The Department of Labor provides this guidance search tool as a single, searchable location where users may search for guidance issued by any of the Department’s agencies, including significant guidance documents under Executive Order 12866. Individual guidance documents are maintained on the various agency websites, and if you know what agency you are looking for, you may also find guidance by navigating directly to that agency’s website. The Code of Federal Regulations and the Federal Register, which are not maintained by the Department, also include some of the Department’s interpretations of law and similar material.
OMB’s Final Bulletin for Agency Good Guidance Practices establishes policies and procedures for the development, issuance, and use of significant guidance documents by Executive Branch departments, including requiring that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor. Petitions should identify the specific guidance document by name and include your reason(s) for the request.
On January 20, 2021, President Biden issued the “Executive Order on Revocation of Certain Executive Orders Concerning Federal Regulation.” In response, the Department issued a final rule January 27, 2021 to rescind its August 28, 2020 rule on guidance documents.
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CPL 02-01-015 [CPL 2-1.15A] - National - New Meat Tenderizing Technology in the Meat Industry - 12/23/1981
States where neither state nor federal certificates of age, or State employment certificates or work permits are available, an employer may rely on the documents specified in Regulation 570. 10.
Minors delivering newspaper 13(d); Child labor
Employee examination of the original x-ray in lieu of providing a copy is permitted. - [1910.1020(c)(6); 1910.1020(e)]
Reimbursement when uniforms receive special treatment because they are heavily soiled. That employees must be reimbursed for the cost of such maintenance on behalf of the employer.
Where an employer's payments under a bonus plan are based upon a percentage of total earnings of the employee, the payments may be excluded from the regular rate of pay if the conditions prescribed in 29 CFR Section 778.210 are met.
Clarification of incipient stage fire and interior structural fire fighting. - [1910.155]
The letter addresses "down time" and when a disabled worker must be paid.
Student required to return portion of income to employer. Wage requirements will not be met if the employee "kicks-back" directly or indirectly to the employer or to another person for the employer's benefit
Guarding of rotating barrels, containers, and drums. - [1910.212(a)(4)]
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