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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Provides guidance on WHD's enforcement position regarding whether employees engaged in egg processing activities are exempt as agricultural employees from the minimum wage and overtime requirements of the FLSA.
Explains the WHD FOH 15e20 revision concerning survey crews and the applicabulity of DB labor standards to members of survey crews.
Clarifies that the age of a son or daughter at the onset of a disability is not relevant in determining a parent's entitlement to FMLA leave, and provides guidance on the impact of the ADAAA on a parent's ability to take FMLA leave to care for an adult child.
Provides information regarding application of FMLA to care for children 18 years and older.
Provides additional clarification concerning the application of the MSPA, FLSA, and OSH Act FSS to activities in connection with the raking, gathering, baling, and loading of pine straw gathered from pine trees grown for commercial timber.
Plain language booklet designed to answer common FMLA questions and clarify who can take FMLA leave and what protections the FMLA provides.
Provides guidance on a voluntary assignment of wages under the H-2A visa program, including principles to apply when determining whether a deduction for an assignment of wages is truly voluntary and permissible.
Enforcement of 2011 Tip Credit Regulations. Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018, Congress vacated the Department's 2011 regulations that barred tip pooling when employers do not claim a tip credit under section 3(m) of the FLSA. Statements in this document to the contrary are no longer WHD policy.
Provides guidance on applying appropriate sanctions and remedies against an employer participating in the H-2A visa program who timely reports worker abandonment or termination for cause, but fails to meet the requirements under 20 CFR § 655.122(n) to be relieved of the return transportation, subsistence, and the three-fourths guarantee obligations.
HO 7 prohibits children under the age of 18 years from operating or assisting in the operation of power-driven hoists/lifts in any setting. This prohibition includes power-driven hoists/lifts used to elevate and transport patients/residents in hospitals, nursing homes, and residences. Additionally, the WHD will not charge a child labor violation when a 16- or 17-year-old employee assists a trained adult employee who is over the age of 18 years in the operation of floor-based vertical powered patient/resident lift devices, ceiling-mounted vertical powered patient/resident lift devices, or powered sit-to-stand patient/resident lift devices when certain specific requirements have been met.
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