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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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The use of fiberglass tanks for storage of crude oil. - [1910.106]
Brazed joints in an oxygen piping installation. - [1910.104]
Working between grounds when working on bare conductors. - [1926.954; 1926.955]
Exemption status of summer resort operation
OSHA concurrence on the use of 3/4" square bars for rungs on fixed ladders. - [1910.27; 1910.27(a)(1); 1910.27(b)(1)(i)]
Section 778.106 overtime compensation earned in a particular workweek must generally be paid on the regular pay day for the period in which the workweek ends. Section 778.211(c), commission bonuses, must be included in the employee's regular rate of pay for purposes of overtime compensation. Section 778.209 when the amount of the bonus can be ascertained, it must be apportioned back over the workweeks of the period during which it may be said to have been earned. The employee must then receive an additional amount of compensation for each workweek that he or she worked overtime during the period equal to one-half of the hourly rate of pay allocable to the bonus for that week multiplied by the number of statutory overtime hours worked during the week.
Discusses whether Employees time spent on-call is compensable. 29 CFR Sections 778.108 and 778.223 describes how the regular rate is computed and how on-call pay is to be treated for purposes of overtime compensation.
The British Standard material valves compliance with Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards. - [1910.106]
Definition of disposable earnings for purposes of applying the CCPA Title III garnishment limits.
Twist lock receptacles and attachment plugs. - [1926]
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