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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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.
Search Tips
- If you are searching using an acronym, try a second search with the acronym spelled out. For example, if you are searching for guidance related to the Davis-Bacon Act, try searching "Davis-Bacon Act" as well as "DBA".
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Requirement for facility owners to notify tenants or employers of presence of ACM and PACM. - [1910.1001; 1910.1001(j)(2)(iii); 1926.1101; 1926.1101(k)(2)(i); 1926.1101(k)(2)(ii)(D)]
Annual BBP training requirement for employees who have been provided more stringent training under 32 CFR Part 627 and the CDC-NIH BMBL publication. - [1910.1030; 1910.1030(g)(2)(ii)]
Whether dental anesthetic carpules are considered to be "contaminated sharps" or "regulated waste". - [1910.1030; 1910.1030(b); 1910.1030(d)(4)(iii)(A); 1910.1030(d)(4)(iii)(B)]
Use of rapid HIV antibody testing on a source individual after an exposure incident. - [1910.1030; 1910.1030(f)(3)(ii)(A)]
Application of the Lockout/Tagout standard to die-setting activities and other machine setup operations. - [1910.147; 1910.147(a)(2)(ii); 1910.147(a)(2)(iii)(A); 1910.147(b); 1910.212]
Whether Location Managers employed in the motion picture industry are exempt from the minimum wage and overtime requirements of the FLSA as administrative employees.
Whether copy editors and senior copy editors qualify as "administrative" employees under section 13(a)(1) of the FLSA and 29 C.F.R. Part 541, 1 and, therefore, are exempt from the minimum wage and overtime pay requirements of the FLSA.
This Advisory Opinion Opinion Letter concludes that a self-directed IRA‘s investment in notes of a corporation, a majority of whose stock is owned by the son-in-law of the IRA owner, would be a prohibited transaction under the Internal Revenue Code.
Continuous industrial processes and the infeasibility of de-energizing equipment under 29 CFR 1910.333. - [1910.333; 1910.333(a)(1)]
Guidance regarding the minimum wage and overtime exemption for certain employees in the computer field under sections 13(a)(1) and 13(a)(17) of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and 29 C.F.R. §§ 541.400-402.
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