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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Punch presses and the revised standard for mechanical power presses. - [1910.217]
De minimis notices for ladders with rung lengths that do not comply with the Fixed Ladders standard. - [1910.27(b)(1)(iii)]
Fire protection requirements for tank saddles. - [1910.106(b)(5)(ii)]
Regarding whether Postmasters meet the Executive or Administrative exemptions under the FLSA
Interpretation of Mechanical Power Presses. - [1910.217]
The applicability of the standards to mechanical goods presses. - [1910.212]
Training and competency of aerial lift operators. - [1910.67]
Addresses whether an employer's system of payment based on employee efficiency quotas for each hour worked would comply with the FLSA's minimum wage and overtime requirements. Affirms that total compensation divided by for the workweek divided by the employee's compensable hours worked equals or exceeds the applicable minimum wage, then the the employee has been paid in compliance with section 6. Explains that the regular rate regulation in 778.115 may apply where the efficiency pay rate system results in payment at two or more hourly rates in the workweek.
Garb-el Food Waste Disposal Unit. - [1910.212]
Concludes that the employer is transferring goods within the same enterprise under 3(r); therefore, the 13(b)(11) exemption does not apply.
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