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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Cleanup of blood from crime or accident scenes and HAZWOPER training requirements - [1910.120; 1910.120(a)(3); 1910.120(e)(3); 1910.120(e)(4); 1910.120(q)(6); 1910.120(q)(11); 1910.1030]
PURPOSE: To provide guidance to the staff of Registration Agencies (i.e., OA and State Apprenticeship Agencies (SAAs)), Registered Apprenticeship program sponsors, Registered Apprenticeship partners, and other interested parties on the applicability of the Support for Veterans in Effective Apprenticeships Act of 2019 (Public Law 116-134, 134 Stat. 277) to SAAs, and on possible approaches for implementation of the Act’s requirements by SAAs.
PURPOSE: To inform the staff of OA and the State Apprenticeship Agencies (SAAs), Registered Apprenticeship program sponsors, Registered Apprenticeship partners, providers of related instruction (RI), and other interested parties with specific guidance and strategies for implementing the requirements of Section 2(b)(2) of Public Law 116-134 that pertain to the provision of progressive wages and the granting of advanced standing and credit to veterans or other eligible individuals by Registered Apprenticeship program sponsors.
PURPOSE: To inform the staff of OA and the State Apprenticeship Agencies (SAA), Registered Apprenticeship program sponsors, Registered Apprenticeship partners, and other interested parties of OA’s decision to rescind, in accordance with the mandate contained in Executive Order 13891, previously-issued guidance documents in the form of bulletins that OA has determined are no longer valid, are outdated, or do not serve an appropriate or useful purpose.
This Field Assistance Bulletin ("FAB") outlines the Wage and Hour Division's ("WHD") temporary enforcement position regarding the application of section 13(a)(3) of the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") to existing amusement or recreational establishments, organized camps, or religious or non-profit educational conference centers that modified, replaced, canceled, or reduced normal operations in 2020 in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Where the conditions outlined below exist, WHD shall not bring enforcement actions for violations of the minimum wage or overtime requirements of the FLSA against such establishments, even if the operations or programming of such establishments offered in 2020 might not satisfy the Department’s regulations under section 13(a)(3).
Outines union members rights
Provides guidance to claimants on the selection of an examining physician related to thier claim for benefits
Information for authorized providers of diagnostic services
Provides guidance to claimants on the completing the SSA-581 related to thier claim for benefits
This guidance provides practices for employers to follow to protect against the spread of COVID-19 and the risk of heat-related illnesses indoors.
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