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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Whether unloading a pallet suspended by a crane is considered construction. - [1926.1400(c)(17)]
OSHA provided clarification of the BBP standard training requirements and how BBP standard applies within tatoo parlors.
OSHA provided clarification of the responsible party's address and phone number requirements on SDSs and labels
Obligations of establishments that provide tattoos and body piercing under OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogens Standard - [1910.1030(g)(2)]
Responsible party's address and phone number on SDSs and labels - [1910.1200(c)]
WOTC 2015 Reauthorization
This set of FAQs addresses notice of coverage options – COBRA and the Health Insurance Marketplace.
Provides an exemption from the minimum wage and overtime provisions of the FLSA for "any employee employed in connection with the publication of any weekly, semiweekly, or daily newspaper with a circulation of less than four thousand the major part of which circulation is within the county where published or counties contiguous thereto."
Provides that FLSA section 7 (overtime) shall not apply to any employee for whom the Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration (DOT/FHWA) has power to establish qualifications and maximum hours of service pursuant to the provisions of section 204 of the Motor Carrier Act of 1935.
Answers to questions regarding the sex discrimination regs.
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