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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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This letter provides an in-depth discussion on when work surrounding trees is agriculture and when it is not agriculture.
Temporary heating devices on construction sites. - [1926.153(h)(7)]
Carrying lunchboxes in manlifts prohibited. - [1910.68(d)(1)]
Section 3(e)(2)(C) of the Act provides an exclusion from its provisions for non-civil service employees who are elected officeholders, members of their personal staffs, and such other personnel as the elected officeholders may appoint to positions as advisors on legal questions or policy-making decisions.
Definition of slow rate of speed for crane bridges and trolleys. - [1910.179(e)(2); 1910.179(e)(3)]
Definition of vinyl chloride, as related to a fabricated product. - [1910.1017(b)(6)]
Wine being aged is a processing operation and with no fire point, is not a flammable. - [1910.106]
Guidance in questions and answers relating to fiduciary responsibilties. Redsignated on 01/12/76.
Discusses employer-employee relationship and how it hasn't been established in this particular set of facts.
This letter discusses rest and break periods. There is no provision in the Act which requires an employer to give the employees work breaks. If an employer does provide rest periods or work breaks, however, such periods must be counted as working time if they do not exceed 20 minutes.
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