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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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 requirements for respirator fit testing with and without facepiece accessories - [1910.134(f)(2); 1910.134(d)(1)(ii)]
CPL 03-00-021 - PSM Covered Chemical Facilities National Emphasis Program - 01/17/2017
OSHA provided clarification on requirements for respiratory fit testing with and without facepiece accessories.
Describes programmed inspections under 29 CFR 1910.119
Guidance and clarification that where tipped employees employed under an H-2B Application for Temporary Employment Certification are also covered by the FLSA, the FLSA tip credit provisions apply in determining the employer's compliance with the FLSA's minimum wage and overtime pay obligations.
Provides background and context regarding the Davis Bacon Act regulations requiring agencies, at the beginning of each fiscal year and to the extent practicable, to provide the Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division with information regarding their proposed construction programs for the coming year.
This Advisory Opinion Opinion Letter concerns how the definition of employee welfare benefit plan and the definition of multiple employer welfare arrangement might apply to a program of administrative services.
This set of recommendations is intended to assist employers in creating workplaces that are free of retaliation, including retaliation against employees who engage in activity protected under the 22 whistleblower laws that OSHA enforces.
This memorandum serves to address the appropriate procedures for closing complaints that are not subject to a full field investigation because the complaint is either docketed and dismissed or administratively closed.
Responding to natural and man-made disasters puts emergency response workers at risk of injury or death from slips, trips and falls. This Quick Card provides information on ways to prevent slips, trips and falls and steps employers must take to protect t
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