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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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There is nothing in the FLSA that requires an employer to provide a notation on a custom's invoice that the goods are produced in compliance with the Section 12 and 15 hot goods provisions.
Encloses Solicitor of Labor Opinion DB-23 addressing application of DBA to missile site construction.
An employee in this case working for a dog kennel would be covered under the FLSA. The separate employee working on the farm would be exempt from the MW and OT requirments of the FLSA under Section 13(a)(6), except for workweeks in which he engages in work which is not a part of nor an incident to the employer's farming operations.
Encloses Solicitor of Labor Opinions DB-21 & 22 addressing application of DBA to truck drivers employed by subcontractors and suppliers.
Encloses Solicitor of Labor Opinions DB-17, 18, & 19 addressing application of DBA to timber sales and supply contracts.
Encloses Solicitor of Labor Opinion DB-20 addressing application of DBA to "incidental" construction.
Advises of Wage and Hour Division personnel reassignments.
Enclosed a copy of a recent opinion on the same general subject.
Solicitor of Labor outlined procedural recommendations of Committee and noted that recommendations regarding labor standards are still pending and under consideration
Encloses Solicitor of Labor Opinion DB-9 excluding, as a matter of administrative policy, the provisions of DBA from truck driver owner-operators. (See also AAMs 117 and 119).
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