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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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This letter examines whether dual-function firefighter/paramedics employed by a Fire Department qualify for the partial overtime exemption under FLSA Section 7(k).
Discusses the Supreme Court's decision in IBP v. Alvarez, 126 Sc.D.. 514 (2005) (together with Barber Foods v. Tum). Employees who work in meat and poultry processing plants must be paid for the time they spend walking between the place where they put on and take off protective equipment and the place where they process the meat or poultry.
This guidance letter and its attachments replace and supersede prior operating procedures and policy guidance within the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) for H-2B certifications in the entertainment industry, including attachments I - IV of ET
Requirements for maintenance of employee exposure records and alternative methods for long-term retention. - [1910.1020; 1910.1020(c)(10); 1910.1020(d)(1)(ii)]
This letter provides guidance on SCA health and welfare payments and the maintenance of group health benefits during FMLA leave.
This letter discusses whether an employee exempted under Section 13(a)(1) may be paid in both US Dollars and foriegn currency and use the combined amount to meet the salary basis requirement.
This letter examines whether "residential" and "roaming" solicitors who solicit charitable donations are exempt outside salespersons under Section 13(a)(1) of the FLSA. Discusses the definition of "sale" in FLSA 3(k).
Whether plywood may be used as scaffold decking material over wood scaffold planks; 29 CFR 1926.450 and 1926.451. - [1926.450; 1926.450(b); 1926.451(a); 1926.451(a)(1); 1926.451(a)(6); 1926.451(b)(1)(i); 1926.451(f)(1); 1926.451(f)(16)]
Whether the motor on a portable concrete mixer has to be covered; 1926.300(b)(1). - [1926.300; 1926.300(b)(1); 1926.300(b)(2)]
Whether toilets at a construction jobsite must be in a sanitary condition to meet the requirements of 29 CFR 1926.51(c). - [1926.51; 1926.51(c)(1)]
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