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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Without additional information, WHD could not determine if the deduction resulted in a MW or OT violation.
If any oppressive child labor is employed in such a vessels, the shipment or delivery for shipment in interstate commerce of goods produced on such vessels would be violation of FLSA Section 12(a). It would not be a violation of any of the applicable 6 hazardous occupations orders.
Frequently Asked Questions for Davis-Bacon and Related Acts (DBRA)
Frequently Asked Questions Pertaining to the Issuance of Wage Determinations Under the McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act (SCA) of 1965, as Amended
This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter provides State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) guidelines and key dates for the completion of the 2021 UI BAM paid and denied claims sample cases and the publication of 2021 BAM data.
Updates to the FAQ section of of the website pertaining to the Defense Base Act
This Webpage provides guidance to the FMLA and additional supporting links.
Encloses Optional Payroll forms developed by the Solicitor of Labor
Partnership Brochure
Co-authored letter by ODEP and Maternal and Child Health Bureau (HHS) outlining health care provisions and laws in relation to employment-based youth programs.
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