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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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This letter advises that an entire military base ordinarily will constitute the instrumentality of commerce or facility of production for commerce, and that all the buildings, areas, and facilities which are provided so that the base wage functions as such according to plan are to be considered generally as a whole. Accordingly, the letter advises that employees performing the maintenance and custodial work at military base installations described by the requester would be individually covered by the FLSA.
In order for employees of a small town newspaper to be exempt, the newspaper must in addition to meeting the other tests for exemption, be printed and published in the same county.
Truck drivers resting in the truck's sleeping berth.
Revised Title 29 Parts 1,3, and 5.
"Bona fide" loans i.e. transactions providing for repayment plus a proper rate of interest, and meeting Internal Revenue Standards, would not disqualify an otherwise bona fide benefit plan under Section 7(d)(4) and 29 CFR 778.6(g).
An employer, which comtemplates under a plan, the payment of all overtime at the end of a four or five week period does not comply with the overtime requirments under Part 778.
Truck drivers riding in the truck's sleeping berths while the relief driver is at the wheel.
Industrial security regulations, as prescribed by the Department of Defense, are within the purport of "safety rules of major significance" under Part 541 and deductions may be made related to them from the salary of an exempt employee.
Encloses Solicitor of Labor Opinion DB-40 outlining DOL's policy of not applying DBA to drilling operations.
Encloses Solicitor of Labor Opinion DB-39 outlining DOL's policy of not applying DBA to stand-alone demolition.
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