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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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OSHA coverage does not extend to home-based care for the elderly. - [1975.6]
Requirements for scaffold grade lumber; qualifications of qualified/competent persons for grading scaffold lumber. - [1926.451(b); 1926.452(e); 1926.452(p)(4); 1926.450(b); 1926 Subpart L App A]
Whether an employer may deduct the cost of uniforms from an employee’s wages in a week in which that employee works more than 40 hours, if the employer pays the employee overtime compensation computed at 1 ½ times the regular rate (before deductions are taken out) and if the deduction does not reduce the regular rate below the minimum wage required by the FLSA.
Information Letter to Theodore R. Groom.
Guidance regarding the alternatives available under the trust requirement of Title I of ERISA with respect to receipt by policyholders of demutualization proceeds belonging to an ERISA covered plan in connection with The Prudential Insurance Company of America’s proposed plan of demutualization.
Whether certain individual retirement annuities and tax deferred annuities that are otherwise exempt from coverage under Title I of ERISA by virtue of DOL regulations at 29 CFR 2510.3-2(d) and (f) would remain exempt if the employer as the contract holder (1) votes on the proposed plan of demutualization and (2) selects an allocation method for distributing the demutualization proceeds among the employees covered under the group contract. See also Information Letter to Theodore R. Groom dated 02/15/01.
Application of the definition of a "fiduciary" in certain circumstances relating to the allocation of demutualization proceeds. See also Information Letter to Theodore R. Groom dated 02/15/01.
Whether money paid to employees as "finder's fees" for discovering and confiscating unauthorized credit cards should be included in their regular rate of pay for purposes of overtime pay calculations.
Whether the teachers would lose their status as exempt professional employees under section 13(a)(1) of the FLSA if they are given disciplinary deductions, without pay, of less than a full work week.
Whether a practice or policy of forwarding unpaid commissions on an indefinite basis would violate the FLSA for those sales employees entitled to the exemption under section 13(b)(10) of the Act, as long as the employees actually receive not less than the statutory minimum wage for all hours worked in each work week.
Whether a 401(k) profit sharing plan meets the requirements for a bona fide thrift or savings plan as defined in 29 CFR 547 so that the employer’s contributions under the plan may be excluded in calculating FLSA overtime for participating employees.
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