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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Information Letter to Diana Orantes Ceresi.
Whether it is appropriate for a trustee of an ERISA-covered health and welfare fund to consider quality in the selection of health care services.
Whether a policy on vacation and sick leave accrual procedures interferes with the exempt status of salaried employees under section 13(a)(1) of the FLSA.
Whether medical assistants, whose job only requires one year of training at a junior college, meet the primary duty test for purposes of the professional exemption under section 13(a)(1) of the FLSA.
Whether academic counselors meet the requirements for the academic administrative exemption and whether enrollment advisors meet the outside sales exemption under section 13(a)(1) of the FLSA.
Procedure to follow when Hepatitis B vaccine schedule is interrupted. - [1910.1030]
Gloves for handling telecommunications cable suspension strand. - [1910.268]
This letter provides guidance on the employer's paid administrative leave policy and the FMLA.
Partial Stay of Methylene Chloride Standard. - [1910.1052]
DBA and CWHSSA: Administrator of Wage & Hour Division provides guidelines for agency preparation of semi-annual enforcement reports. This AAM supersedes AAMs 60, 65, 79, and 80.
Applicability of PSM standard to explosive and pyrotechnic manufacturing. - [1910.119; 1910.109(k)(2); 1910.109(k)(3)]
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