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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Addressing the compensability of time that employees spend attending voluntary training programs in six scenarios.
Addressing compensability of employee travel time in three hypothetical scenarios involving construction sites located away from the employer's principal place of business.
This Field Assistance Bulletin ("FAB") outlines the Wage and Hour Division's ("WHD") temporary enforcement position regarding the application of section 13(a)(3) of the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") to existing amusement or recreational establishments, organized camps, or religious or non-profit educational conference centers that modified, replaced, canceled, or reduced normal operations in 2020 in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Where the conditions outlined below exist, WHD shall not bring enforcement actions for violations of the minimum wage or overtime requirements of the FLSA against such establishments, even if the operations or programming of such establishments offered in 2020 might not satisfy the Department’s regulations under section 13(a)(3).
Addressing whether the FLSA's "retail or service establishment" exemption applies to certain truck drivers who work for a private "oilfield service company" that provides waste-removal services for oilfield operators.
Addressing whether an employer complies with FLSA's minimum wage requirements when reimbursing delivery drivers for business-related expenses incurred while using their personal vehicles during the course of employment.
Addressing whether employees' hours must fluctuate above and below 40 hours per week to qualify for the fluctuating workweek method of calculating overtime pay.
Addressing whether part-time employees who provide corporate-management training and are paid a day rate with additional hourly compensation qualify for the learned professional exemption and the highly compensated employee test under Section 13(a)(1) of the FLSA.
This Field Assistance Bulletin (FAB) provides guidance regarding employers' obligation under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA or Act) to track the number of hours of compensable work performed by employees who are teleworking or otherwise working remotely away from any worksite or premises controlled by their employers.
This Field Assistance Bulletin (FAB) provides guidance for Wage and Hour Division (WHD) investigators regarding when an employee may take leave under the Family First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) to care for his or her child based on the closure of a summer camp, summer enrichment program, or other summer program for COVID-19 related reasons.
This Field Assistance Bulletin (FAB) provides guidance regarding when schools that have physically closed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic are nonetheless considered to be in session for the purposes of the child labor laws applicable to the employment of children under the age of 16 in agricultural and nonagricultural employment.
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