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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Structural steel angles for cleats on fixed ladders. - [1910.27]
A request that the Automatic Nailing Machine be listed in 1910.217. - [1910.217]
Testing of the WindGard. - [1910.135 ]
The issuance of a Program Directive to clarify the applicability fo OSHA standards. - [1910.106]
Discusses how the requirement in section 3(m) of the FLSA that an employee must retain all tips does not preclude tip splitting or pooling arrangements among certain employees who customarily and regularly receive tips. Tipped employees may not be required to share their tips with employees who have not customarily and regularly participated in tip pools.
It is acceptable to use material other than fiber rope for boatswain's chairs. - [1910.28(j)(2)]
Clarification of a regulated area for battery type coke ovens - [1910.1029(d)(2)(i)]
This letter provides an analysis as to whether a translator meets the professional exemption under section 13(a)(1) of the FLSA and explains that the exemption is not determined on the basis of occupational title or job classification but is granted on the basis of the duties, salary and other requirements of the job of the individual employee involved.
This letter addresses several questions relating to the circumstances under which political committees would be subject to the provisions of the FLSA. The FLSA contains various exemptions, and in the case of political committees perhaps the most pertinent one is Section 13(a)(1), 20 U.S.C 213(a)(1). This provision exempts from the minimum wage and overtime requirements (but not the equal pay provisions) anyone employed in a bona fide executive, administrative or professional capacity. See 29 C.F.R. Part 541, for further details.
Proof testing, as a unit, certain types of alloy steel chain lifting devices. - [1910.184]
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