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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Transfer of certain responsibilities under Secretary of Labor's Order 21-67 from the Solicitor of Labor to the Administrator of WHPC;Directory of WHPC Regional and District Offices
29 CFR 5.7(b) requires al agencies administering the DBRA and CWHSA to submit a semi-annual enforcement report to U.S. DOL; Form in use was provided by AAM #65. Submits proposed form (with instructions) for comments by Jan. 31, 1969 to enable final version to be used for July 31, 1969 reporting.
Small agencies may refer complaints to WHPC for investigation. Four attachments: Directory of WHPC Regional and District Offices; Manual - for Government Use only (March 1952, revised March 1967); 29 CFR Parts 3 & 5.
Emphasis on requirement that agencies requesting wage rates for application to DBA/DBRA projects provide "pertinent wage payment data," to enable DOL to appropriately predetermine prevailing rates for prospective projects. A footnote highlights best sources of information for residential construction.
DBA Coverage
DBA requires payment "at wage rates not less than those stated in the advertised specifications, regardless of any contractural relationship which may be alleged to exist between the contractor or subcontractor and such laborers and mechanics ..." In U.S. v. Landis and Young, 16 F. Supp. 832, the court allowed an electrical contractor's claim for more than the fixed price plaintiff agreed to in contracting to perform electrical work because the object of that DBA provision is to require, as a matter of policy, all persons performing the duties of a laborer or mechanic on a covered rproject at least the predetermined minimum of wages according to the scale named.
Outlines procedures for labor standards cases that are referred to Department of Justice
Encloses Optional Payroll forms developed by the Solicitor of Labor
By procalmation f the President on March 29, 1971, Proclamation 4031 of February 23, 1971 is revoked as to all construction contracts for which solicitations for bids or proposals were issued after the date of this Proclamation, whether direct federal construction or federally assisted construction. By Executive Order 11588, on March 29, 1971, the President esstablished a wage and price stabilization mechanism for the construction industry, under which DBA and similar State wage determinations were not to take into consideration "wage or salary increases in excess of that found to be acceptable."
As DOL had worked out an arrangement to publish approximately 400 area (general) Davis-Bacon and Related Acts wage determinations in the Federal Register with the geographic scope and limits of application clearly stated in the published wage determination heading. The area wage determinations had been issued for certain areas/federal agencies but had not previously been published. The AAM issued a schedule for wage determinations to be published on Fridays for areas in specific states from April 6, 1971 through September 3, 1971. Subsequently, new wage determinations, replacements, or modifications to particular area determinations would be published in Friday issues of the Federal Register.
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