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.
The Department and its agencies issue guidance to provide clarifying information and technical assistance to the public on existing statutory and regulatory rights and obligations, inform the regulated community about best practices, and provide other useful information. The contents of these documents do not have the force and effect of law and are not meant to bind the public in any way, except as authorized by law or incorporated into a contract, cooperative agreement, or grant.
Members of the public may petition the Department to modify or withdraw specific guidance documents. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.
Petitions to Modify or Withdraw a DOL guidance document may also be submitted by mail at the address below. Petitions should identify the specific guidance document by name and include your reason(s) for requesting withdrawal or modification.
U.S. Department of Labor
Office of the Executive Secretariat
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Washington, DC 20210
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Medical attention time spent by an employee in waiting for and undergoing a physical examination required by the employer as a requisite for continued employment is to be considered as compensable hours worked. It is immaterial whether the examination is scheduled during the employee's normal working hours or during his or her nonworking hours. It also discusses Incurred cost and when it's compensable.
This letter provides a disucssion regarding a specific set of facts involving employees driving a commuter van in a "Vanpooling" program where the time spent by employees driving the commuter vans would not constitute compensable hours of work within the meaning of the Act.
Activities engaged in by the students in connection with the school publication do not constitute work within the contemplation of section 3(g) of the FLSA and do not result in an employer-employee relationship between the students and the local newspaper.
Provided guidance to Contracting Officers for contract extensions as the Federal Government revised its Fiscal Year timetable for FY 77.
Whether employees of a State's fish cultural station are exempt under Section 13(a)(5) under the FLSA
Discussion of general principles involved in determining what constitutes working time under Part 785 for employees who spend time traveling between various job sites. Discussion on travel that is all in a day's work, principal activity; travel away from home, and portal to portal act provisions. 29 CFR 785.35, 785.50, 790.7 and 790.9.
Section 549.1(e) provides, as one of the essential requirements for qualification, that the amounts paid to individuals are determined in accordance with a definite formula or method of calculation specified in the plan or trust. The formula or method of calculation may be based on any one or more of such factors as straight time earnings, total earnings, base rate of pay of the employee, straight time hours or total hours worked by the employees, or distribution may be made on a per capita basis.
This letter provides an in-depth discussion on when work surrounding trees is agriculture and when it is not agriculture.
Section 3(e)(2)(C) of the Act provides an exclusion from its provisions for non-civil service employees who are elected officeholders, members of their personal staffs, and such other personnel as the elected officeholders may appoint to positions as advisors on legal questions or policy-making decisions.
Discusses employer-employee relationship and how it hasn't been established in this particular set of facts.
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