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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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
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Deductions from the salary of a registered nurse may be taken for one or more full days based on hours worked
Client service managers meet all tests for 13(a)(1) administrative exemption
FAQs to provide answers about the PAID program
Informed community of requirements for use of revised 14(c) application forms.
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.
provides background and context regarding the Davis Bacon Act and its coverage provisions, summarizes the CityCenterDC opinion, and provides guidance regarding the opinion's significance.
FAB 2016-5 discusses the guidelines the Wage and Hour Division (WHD) follows to determine when an assessment of child labor civil money penalties under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. 201 et seq. , is appropriate, as well as the amounts of the penalties WHD will assess.
Guidance regarding WHD's enforcement of certain tip credit provisions in Field Operations Handbook sections 30d and 32j18. Incorporated the 1996 statutory amendments to section 3(m) of the FLSA and the 2011 revisions to the tip credit regulations, as well as provide guidance on an employer's ability to utilize a tip credit in states that have minimum wages in excess of the FLSA minimum wage and permit tip credits in excess of the FLSA 3(m) tip credit.
Provides publically available guidance to WHD field staff regarding the treatment of disability payments from an empoyment-based disability plan to earnings under the CCPA.
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