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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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OSHA construction standards do not apply to highway transportation of explosives. - [1926.902(d)]
Overhead guards not required for trucks operating in low overhead locations. - [1910.178(e)(1)]
Interpretive views of section 410(a) of ERISA, as applied to different agreements for indemnification of fiduciaries, providing examples of provisions that are permitted under section 410(a) and describing other indemnification provisions that are void u
If the employers are disassocated and the services of the police officer for the secondary employer are not required by statute or ordinance, there is no joint employment. If a police officer is at a workplace other than required by his primary employment is required by statute or local ordinance, a joint employment relationship exists.
The time spent at mobile homes provided by the school board or other public agencies by law enforcement officers would not constiute hours worked. Occupants are free to come and go as they please and these properties are not required to be occupied by police officers.
No joint employment relationship is established between the police department and the private employer of an off-duty officer. The officer is not under the control or supervision of the private employer and still must respond to the call of duty from the police department while engaged in off duty employment.
General requirements of ladders - [1926.451(e)(2); 1926.1053(b)(1)]
No joint employment relationship exists between the city fire department and county hospital. The presence of an intergovernmental agreement between the two and the fact that the city provides training that benefits the county hospital, among other facts, did not esablish a joint employment relationship.
Application of FLSA sections 13(a)(3) and 13(b)(8) to employees employed by country clubs.
Application of the standards to clicking machines, used in the footwear manufacturing industry. - [1910.217]
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