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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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CPL 00-00-001 [CPL 1.2] - National - Interagency "Early Warning System" - 10/30/1978
CPL 02-00-002 [CPL 2.2] - National - American Red Cross Agreement - 10/30/1978
CPL 02-00-009 [CPL 2.9] - National - Inspections of Granted Variances - 10/30/1978
CPL 02-02-006 [CPL 2-2.6] - National - Inorganic Mercury and its Compounds - 10/30/1978
Defective Doors on Railroad Boxcars Hazard Alert.
Grounding and barricading requirements for lifting equipment used near energized lines. - [1926.955(a)(6)(ii); 1926.952(c)]
Section 3(m) was intended to apply to facilities furnished by the employer as compensation to the employee, regardless of whether the employer calculates charges for such facilities as additions to or deductions from wages. Free room and board provided, in addition to the subminimum wage, would constitute a higher wage. WHD will not consider the free room and board during the summer months in addition to the subminimum wage payment as contrary to section 519.15(h), when the students are subsequently paid only the subminimum wage during the regular school term.
Section 13(a)(3) exempts from the Act's monetary requirements "any employee employed by an establishment which is an amusement or recreational establishment,provided either of the two test are met. Sports Arena is an amusement and recreational establishment and (if it were covered by the FLSA) would be entitled to the exemption. The administrative officer located in a separate establishment on the premises of the Sport Arena, which is not an establishment to which the general public has recourse for its amusement or recreation would not met the section 13(a)(3) exemption for its employees of the sport arena administrative offices.
CPL 02-02-022 [CPL 2-2.22] - National - 29 CFR 1910.1018 Inspection and Compliance Procedures for the Permanent Occupation Exposure Standard for Inorganic Arsenic Compounds. - 10/10/1978
Applicability of the inorganic arsenic standard to operations involving chromated copper arsenate (CCA) wood preservative. - [1910.1018]
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