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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Campus police employed by publicly operated institutions of higher education, including junior colleges, are engaged in employment which was subject to the Act before the l974 Amendments and, therefore, do not come within the scope of the overtime pay exemptions provided in section 7(k) or l3(b)(20) of the Act. 29 CFR 553.8(b). The letter also provides legislative history relevant to the status of these exemptions.
Clarification of requirements for safety latches on lifting hooks. - [1910.181(j)(2)(ii)]
1910.179(b)(4) only applies to outdoor storage bridge gantry cranes with spans over 100ft. - [1910.179(b)(4)]
The letter analyzes the definition of "employee" under section 14c. The letter states that an individual will be considered an employee if the work being done provides an economic benefit to the institution.
Requirements when working with or around belt driven machines and motors. - [1910.219; 1910.219(d)(1)]
Medical attention time spent by an employee in waiting for and undergoing a physical examination required by the employer as a requisite for continued employment is to be considered as compensable hours worked. It is immaterial whether the examination is scheduled during the employee's normal working hours or during his or her nonworking hours. It also discusses Incurred cost and when it's compensable.
Clarification of requirements that exit routes be maintained clear of all obstructions. - [1910.36; 1910.37; 1910.37(a)(3); 1910.36(g)(2)]
This letter provides a disucssion regarding a specific set of facts involving employees driving a commuter van in a "Vanpooling" program where the time spent by employees driving the commuter vans would not constitute compensable hours of work within the meaning of the Act.
The cab entrance height of a log skidder. - [1910.266(f)(3)(xiv)]
Activities engaged in by the students in connection with the school publication do not constitute work within the contemplation of section 3(g) of the FLSA and do not result in an employer-employee relationship between the students and the local newspaper.
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