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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Examines the application of Section 13(b)(1) to a food manufacturer with operations in several states.
Examines the rounding practices of a public employer who does not allow employees to record additional hours worked unless it exceeded the scheduled shift by thirty minutes.
Examines the employer's meal period policy which requires the employee to remain in a lunchroom with restricted activities during an unpaid meal break.
Examines the applicability of FLSA Section 13(a)(3) to a camp program as a separate establishment from the year-round operations of the same non-profit charitable organization. Discusses the definition of "establishment" as defined in 29 CFR 779.305.
Examines the issues of sleep time as hours worked in residential care facilities where the employee is not permitted to leave the premises and/or may reside on the premises permanently or for an extended period of time.
Examines criteria in FLSA Section 3(e) and regulations 29 CFR 553 to determine whether a public school district would comply with the Act if it allows a nonexempt school system staff to assist as volunteers without compensation coaching sports, sponsoring clubs, etc. Examples discussed include bus driver volunteering to drive the basketball team to away games and teacher assistant volunteering to assist the basketball team as a parent.
This was a final ruling letter that applied SCA coverage to a concession contract at Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska.
Examines the effect on employees who are otherwise exempt under FLSA 13(a)(1) when they work part-time for reduced pay and also receive pay through a disability insurance pay program
Findings of a labor standards investigation conducted under the McNamara-O’Hara Service Contract Act (SCA) relative to the subject FAA contract for the furnishing of air traffic control instructional services.
Examines the applicability of FLSA Section 7(k) to Port of Entry Officers. Discusses power of arrest and other factors enumerated in 29 CFR 553.
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