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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Clarification of use of the annual audiogram in place of the baseline. - [1910.95; 1910.95(g)(9)]
Whether a Boat Captain position can be exempt from the overtime pay requirement of the FLSA as an "employee employed as a seaman" pursuant to section 13(b)(6) of the FLSA and 29 C.F.R. Part 783.1.
Withdrawals, Time Periods, Acceptable Publications
Whether inspections for portable fire extinguishers can be reduced from monthly to quarterly intervals. - [1910.155; 1910.155(c)(27); 1910.157; 1910.157(d)(3); 1910.157(e); 1910.157(e)(2)]
Whether certain "registered representatives" in the financial services industry qualify for the administrative exemption under section 13(a)(1) of the FLSA and 29 C.F.R. Part 541.1.
Qualifications required under 1910.269 for entry into manholes/vaults to perform work on energized conductors. - [1910.146; 1910.269; 1910.269(a)(2); 1910.269(a)(2)(ii); 1910.269(e)(2); 1910.269(l)(1); 1910.269(l)(2); 1910.269(t)]
Use of "objective data" to accurately characterize employee exposures to hexavalent chromium during welding operations. - [1910.1026(d)(3); 1926.1126(d)(3)]
OSHA requirements for warning signs and protection from electric-arc-flash hazards and compliance with NFPA 70E-2004. - [1910.5; 1910.5(c)(1); 1910.5(f); 1910.132; 1910.145; 1910.303; 1910.303(e); 1910.333; 1910.333(a)(1); 1910.333(b)(2); 1910.335; 1910.3
Notification of alternative control methods for Class I asbestos work no longer required; notification requirement eliminated. - [1926.1101]
Whether deductions for bad checks or other cash shortages from bonus payments made to salaried exempt employees are permissible and whether the deductions would affect their exempt status under section 13(a)(1) of the FLSA.
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