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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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Section 3(m) of the FLSA makes clear that all tips received by tipped employees must be retained by them (except to the extent that a legitimate tip pool exists). It is not permissible under the FLSA to deny tipped employees the use of their tips until sometime subsequent to the dates on which the tips were given them. In the case of tips provided by means of a credit card, the employer may pay cash at the end of the shift and no later than the next regular payday. Where the tips are paid in cash, the employees must retain them.
Clarification of 29 CFR 1910.107 in regard to when sampling for the LEL would be required. - [1910.107]
Personnel protection required for employees working on a Multistage two-point suspension scaffold. - [1926.451]
Respirator air quality standards do not apply where the NRC has jurisdiction. - [1910.134(i)]
Use of air on the pushover ram to clean standpipes is an acceptable practice; Standpipes should be cleaned if 20% of the cross sectional area is clocked. - [1910.1029(f)(2)(i)(g); 1910.1029(f)(3)(i)(a)(2)]
Services provided by facilities which constitute "care" within the meaning of section 3(s)(5) of the FLSA; and employees performing such services are covered by the FLSA and must be paid in accordance with its pay provisions, unless a specific exemption applies.
This letter provides example of various methods of paying overtime utlizing the weighted aveage method. Examples provide include situations which involve higher rates due to union agreement and results in higher amount of wages due.
Employees engaged in hauling newspapers to drop stations, distributing centers, newsstands, etc., do not come within the exemption because they do not deliver to the consumer. Those who deliver newspapers to coin racks also are not engaged in the delivery of newspapers to the consumer; and accordingly, they are excluded from the exemption provided by section 13(d) of the FLSA; see 29 CFR 570.124
Appropriate guarding of lathe chucks. - [1910.212(a)(1)]
Ground Fault Protection. - [1926.400]
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