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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Whether workers who provide janitorial services on site at a race track meet the exemption.
Application of the Fair Labor Standards Act to school food service employees
Concerning a response to a previous letter clarifying school food services workers; student voluteers, hours worked, child labor.
Whether exemptions apply to employees of automobile dealerships.
Encloses Solicitor of Labor Opinion DB-53 regarding enrollees or trainees participating in youth, poverty or manpower training programs while performing on federal construction contracts.
Explanation of proper application for a bona fide benefits plan under 7(e)(4).
Whether golf clubs and other estabishments may qualify for exemption under Section 13(a)(3).
Whether certain resort hotels and private clubs qualify for exemption under Section 13(a)(3).
Whether the Collective Bargaining Agreement certified through the National Labor Relations Board was properly submitted to WH for consideration of its payment plan.
FLSA does not prohibit an employer from paying his employees a different rate of pay during the busy season than in the slack season provided each rate is agreed upon and specified in advance, is in effect for a substantial period of time and is a bona fide rate i.e., the actual basis of straight time and overtime compensation.
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