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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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- If you are searching using an acronym, try a second search with the acronym spelled out. For example, if you are searching for guidance related to the Davis-Bacon Act, try searching "Davis-Bacon Act" as well as "DBA".
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Information about filing a claim for benefits under the Black Lung Benefits Act
Laboratory Safety: Cryogens and Dry Ice Quick Facts
Distracted Driving - Revised
High-level overview of the 2012 Hazard Communication Standard requirements for safety data sheets
N-Nitrosamine in the Rubber Industry
Emergency Response: Best Practices for Protecting EMS Responders during Treatment and Transport of Victims of Hazardous Substance Releases
DBA requires payment "at wage rates not less than those stated in the advertised specifications, regardless of any contractural relationship which may be alleged to exist between the contractor or subcontractor and such laborers and mechanics ..." In U.S. v. Landis and Young, 16 F. Supp. 832, the court allowed an electrical contractor's claim for more than the fixed price plaintiff agreed to in contracting to perform electrical work because the object of that DBA provision is to require, as a matter of policy, all persons performing the duties of a laborer or mechanic on a covered rproject at least the predetermined minimum of wages according to the scale named.
Pandemic: Protecting Workers during a Pandemic Fact Sheet
Provides employers with information and resources to facilitate disability inclusive internship programs as well as the components to consider when designing, implementing, and evaluating such programs.
Asbestos Standard for the Construction Industry
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