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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Encloses Solicitor of Labor Opinion DB-29 clarifying application of DBA to oil spreading employees of suppliers.
Enclosed draft revisions to Title 29 CFR, Parts 1, 3 and 5.
Encloses Solicitor of Labor Opinion DB-27 addressing CWHSSA application.
Encloses Solicitor of Labor Opinion DB-28 addressing application of DBA to oil spreading workers.
Encloses Solicitor of Labor Opinion DB-26 addressing application of DBA to survey crews.
Encloses Solicitor of Labor Opinion DB-25 addressing application of DBA to construction work performed by employees of the Boston Gas Company.
Since the employer makes a profit on the transactions related to the cost of the rent and coal to the employee, such deductions are in violation of the MW provisions of the FLSA.
There is nothing in the FLSA that requires an employer to provide a notation on a custom's invoice that the goods are produced in compliance with the Section 12 and 15 hot goods provisions.
Encloses Solicitor of Labor Opinion DB-23 addressing application of DBA to missile site construction.
An employee in this case working for a dog kennel would be covered under the FLSA. The separate employee working on the farm would be exempt from the MW and OT requirments of the FLSA under Section 13(a)(6), except for workweeks in which he engages in work which is not a part of nor an incident to the employer's farming operations.
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