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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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
200 Constitution Ave NW
Washington, DC 20210
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Addresses whether recent updates to the FLSA have changed the Agency's position, previously stated in an Opinion Letter of 11/18/1998, with respect to certain participants.
Discusses whether a City's timekeeping policy would be inconsistent with the requirement in FLSA's regulation 29 CFR 541 for exempt employees to be paid on a salary basis.
Examines descriptions of employers business practices to determine if they qualify as "retail or service establishments" under the FLSA 7(i) exemption.
Discusses the potential for coverage under the FLSA, and of potential exemption under Section 13(b)(24), of house parents employed by a residential care facility for children.
Discussion of public employees' ability to substitute for one another under certain circumstances under FLSA 7(p)(3).
Examines whether a 20 minute unpaid meal break would meet the requirements of FLSA regulation 29 CFR 785.
Examines the application of the FLSA to an affiliate of a group of airlines and to the U.S. holding company that owns it. Discussion of whether the two entities meet the Railway Labor Act’s definition of “carrier” for purposes of applying Section 13(b)(3) of the FLSA.
Discusses circumstances under which an office furniture dealership would qualify for the FLSA 7(i) exemption for retail or service establishments.
Examines criteria in FLSA Section 3(e) and regulations 29 CFR 553 to determine whether a public employer would comply with the law if it allows a Fire Captain to volunteer without compensation as a Chaplain.
Examines the application of the 13(b)(1) exemption to truck drivers using regulations in 29 CFR 782, including the practical continuity of movement and the shipper's fixed and persisting intent at the time of shipment.
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