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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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There is no provision in the FLSA which would require an employer to pay an employee for time spent on jury duty.
Persons such as lay brothers, deacons, ministers, nuns, priests and other members of religious orders are generally not considered to be "employees" within the meaning of the law while serving pursuant to their religious obligations in churches or other institutions operated by a church. In addition, persons who volunteer their service to religious, charitable, and nonprofit organizations, not as employees and without contemplation of pay, are not considered employees within the meaning of the Act.
Training program requirements in the lead standard. - [1910.1025]
The authority to exclude from an employee's regular rate of pay payments made pursuant to a bona fide plan for providing old-age, retirement, life, accident, or health insurance or similar benefits for employees is contained in Section 7(e)(4) of the FLSA. In order for an employer's contributions to a benefit-plan to qualify for exclusion under Section 7(e)(4) of the FLSA, the conditions listed in section 778.215 must be met.
The design of trolley bumpers for electric overhead traveling cranes. - [1910.179]
Employees who must execute liquidated damage payments to an employer as a condition of employment, for failing to give two weeks' notice prior to employment separation, are denied the protection of the FSA when such payments reduce the employees' wages below the required minimum wage.
Use of air on the pushover ram to clean standpipes is an acceptable practice; Filtered air is required for operating cabs; Request for variance on requirements for filtered air for standby wharf pulpi - [1910.1029(f)(2)(i)(g); 1910.1029(f)(4)(i); 1910.102
Evaluation of Evalok automatic fall protection devices. - [1926.104]
ROPS on the Job TB 1200 L excavator. - [1926.602]
Application of section 13(b)(24) of the FLSA provides an overtime pay exemption for any employee who is employed by a non-profit educational institution to serve as the parents of children (A) who are orphans or one of whose natural parents is deceased, and (B) who are enrolled in such institution and reside in residential facilities of the institution. The category of individuals and the type of institution to which they intended the exemption to apply: Namely, children who are orphans and who are enrolled in and reside on the premises of an educational institution (school).
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