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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Protection provided by powered air-purifying respirators. - [1910.134(g)(1)(i); 1910.134(g)(1)(ii); 1910.134(g)(1)(iii)]
Calculating of hearing threshold shifts. - [1910.95]
Applicability of 1910.180(b)(1) to cranes used with drag line, pile driver or clam shell attachments. - [1910.180(b)(1)]
This letter advises that "per diem" payments intended as reimbursement for actual or reasonably approximate transportation and living expenses incurred by an employee while traveling on behalf of the employer may be excluded from the employee's regular rate of pay. However, the letter cautions that any payments to an employee which are disproportionately large or which obviously exceed the employee's actual (or reasonably approximate) expenses must be included in the employee's regular rate of pay.
This letter advises that handicapped individuals, who would normally qualify as clients of the workshop, may volunteer to perform tasks at the workshop which would otherwise be performed by non-client volunteers but cannot be considered volunteers when performing work that clients of the workshop would ordinarily perform. The letter emphasizes that disabled individuals must understand the voluntary nature of their work and the fact that they are free not to participate in volunteer activities, and suggests that written information about volunteer activities be made available to both the disabled volunteers and their parents or guardians at the start of the volunteer period.
This letter advises that WHD will not assert an FLSA employment relationship where children are working with their parents' consent to pay restitution; are not displacing regular workers or impinging on employment opportunities of others; and such work is performed under the jurisdiction, pursuant to the order, and subject to the protection of the court. Where no employment relationship exists, neither the pay provisions nor the child labor requirements of FLSA apply.
This letter advises that time spent by employees visiting their private physician outside of normal working hours would not be considered compensable hours of work even if they are instructed to do so by their employer as a condition for return to work after an absence due to illness.
PCBs in fluorescent light fixtures. - [1910.1000 TABLE Z-1]
Electrical Standards for Construction, Revised Subpart K - [1926 Subpart K]
This letter advises that, notwithstanding the inaccessibility of the location and the fact that an employee cannot leave, time spent sleeping by youth specialist employees on an overnight camping "treck" may be properly excluded from the employees' hours worked under FLSA. However, the letter cautions that if interruptions to sleep are so frequent that the employee cannot get at least 5 hours of sleep during the scheduled sleeping period the entire period must be counted as hours worked.
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