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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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 on refusal to work rights. - [1977]
Interpretation on requirements for insulating rubber gloves in telecommunications work. - [1910.268(n)(1)(i)]
Clarification of the applicable standards for a body belt and lanyard used by an employee working from the bucket of aerial boom trucks. - [1926.959]
Reasonable judgment is needed in evaluating the proximity of required sanitary facilities. - [1910.141(c)]
Whether the Wisconsin Association Insurance Trust is an employee welfare benefit plan covered by title I of ERISA.
Use of an emergency jog reverse control during mill rescue operations. - [1910.216(e)]
OSHA requirement for guarding power take-off (PTO) shafts on agricultural equipment. - [1928.57]
This letter analyzes work samples and simulations (an unpaid pre-shop program) and whether it constitutes hours worked. The letter concludes that time spent in rehabiliation services are not considered hours worked because the services are not for the purpose of incresing the workers productivity.
Employer offering an unpaid pre-shop program to handicapped workers in a sheltered workshop. The Department considers time spent in rehabilitation services not to be hours worked provided the services are not primarily for the purpose of increasing such worker's productivity on the job.
Hotel employees time spent changing into work clothes is not considered compensable, since the clothes are considered to be furnished for the convenience of the employee. As indicated in section 785.25
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