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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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.
Search Tips
- If you are searching using an acronym, try a second search with the acronym spelled out. For example, if you are searching for guidance related to the Davis-Bacon Act, try searching "Davis-Bacon Act" as well as "DBA".
- For more specific results, use quotation marks around phrases.
- For more general results, remove quotation marks to search for each word individually. For example, minimum wage will return all documents that have either the word minimum or the word wage in the description, while “minimum wage” will limit results to those containing that phrase.
Whether Section 13(a)(10) is applicable to small telephone companies employing switchboard operators.
Directly related to training time of employees where trainees attendance is outside of regular work hours.
SECTION 5.7(b)-REGS. Federal agencies must furnish compliance reports enclosing a copy of suggested form - first one due JANUARY 15, 1965.
Concerns a description of duties of Interior Designers employed at retail establishments and the 541 exemption
Employer requests review of training time standards whether time spent in training after work hours is hours worked.
Solicitor of Labor requests contracting agency assistance in submitting payment information to support prevailing wage surveys.
Employer request for reconsideration of previous submission regarding profit sharing/benefit plan utilized by employer.
The status of real estate salesmen under the Fair Labor Standards Act
The application of the section 13(a)(2) exemption contained in the Fair Labor Standards Act to combination hotel-restaurant-gambling casino establishments
FLSA Section 13(d) exempts from minimum wage, overtime, and child labor provisions an employee engaged in the delivery of newespapers to the consumer. The Section 13(d) exemption is applicable to minors who perform the work of going door to door to solicit subscriptions of a newspaper.
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