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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Interpretation of the term "bulk plant" as it is used in 1910.106. - [1910.106]
Defines whether certain clothes are considered a uniform, and 3(m).
Back wages under the FLSA is limited by section 6(a) of the Portal to Portal Act to a general 2 year statute of limitations with respect to a cause of action for unpaid minimum wages, overtime compensation or liquidated damages unless the violations are determined to be willful, in which case a statute of limitations of three years applies. When one company acquires another company, the new company's liability for any back wages which may be due from the old company would be limited by the terms and conditions regarding the assumption of liabilities set forth in the purchase agreement.
Clarification of standard 29 CFR 1910.106(b)(4)(iv)(e). - [1910.106]
Duplex Rewinder Bar Guards. - [1910.261]
This letter addresses whether section 14c applies to patient workers at institutions for their residential care. The letter states that the costs of operating a residential program cannot be considered offsetting factors in determining patient-worker wages.
The investigation of worker job safety complaints performed by OSHA. - [1903.11(a)]
Platen Presses. - [1910.217]
Retention period for inspection and maintenance records for mechanical power presses. - [1910.217(e)(1)(i); 1910.217(e)(1)(ii)]
Spray Finishing Using Water-Base Paints. - [1910.107]
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