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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Whether it is permissible to leave tools in the holes of the top plate of a self-supporting ladder; whether employers are permitted to develop their own color-coding system at a construction site. - [1926.200; 1926.200(b)(2); 1926.200(c)(2); 1926.200(d);
Operations that trigger the requirement for employers to provide washing facilities on construction jobsites under 29 CFR 1926.51(f)(1). - [1926.51; 1926.51(f)(1); 1926.59 ; 1910.1200]
Whether a concrete form panel with horizontal ribs meets the requirements in Part 1926 Subpart X for fixed ladders. - [1926.1050; 1926.1050(b); 1926.1053; 1926.1053(a)(13)]
This letter discusses the use of tips to pay for the cleaning of uniforms or garments worn by restaurant servers.
To transmit to the Office of Apprenticeship Training, Employer and Labor Services (OATELS) and the Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training (BAT) staff policy which encourages apprenticeship sponsors to accord former inmates lacking journey worker skills, wh
This letter examines whether employees of a children's service organization may volunteer to chaperone cultural and sporting field trips or bingo games.
This letter discusses the salary basis of pay under the 13(a)(1) exemption and whether it may be reduced for a part-time employee.
This letter examines whether police officers should be compensated for time spent in training on the use of a firearm that the officer carries voluntarily during off duty hours.
This letter examines the position of Executive Secretary in a municipality for applicability of the FLSA under Sections 3(e)(2)(C)(i) and (ii)(V)
Whether 1926.601 is applicable to personnel and burden carriers used in construction. - [1926.601; 1926.601(b)(5); 1926.601(b)(8)]
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