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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Resources to identify non-discriminatory apprentice selection procedures
Instructions on how to file a complaint
Requirements for EEO in apprenticeship compliance implementation timeline
How to find opportunities in apprenticeship
How an employer can start an apprenticeship program
Information to advance apprenticeship as a workforce strategy
The fact sheet provides an overview of the final rule amending the Department’s claims procedure regulation for disability benefits to require that plans, plan fiduciaries and insurance providers comply with additional procedural protections when dealing with disability benefit claimants.
Guidance regarding WHD's enforcement of certain tip credit provisions in Field Operations Handbook sections 30d and 32j18. Incorporated the 1996 statutory amendments to section 3(m) of the FLSA and the 2011 revisions to the tip credit regulations, as well as provide guidance on an employer's ability to utilize a tip credit in states that have minimum wages in excess of the FLSA minimum wage and permit tip credits in excess of the FLSA 3(m) tip credit.
Announces the publication of the Final Rule updating the Section 188 WIOA Nondiscrimination and Equal Opportunity Regulations (29 CFR Part 38) and describes significant provisions
Announces the publication of the Final Rule updating the Section 188 WIOA Nondiscrimination and Equal Opportunity Regulations (29 CFR Part 38) and describes significant provisions
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