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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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.
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Tipped employees cannot be required to pay for uniforms from tips since tips belong to the employee. The uniform is primarily for the benefit of the employe, and any recoupment of the cost of the uniform, either by payroll deduction or a security deposit would not comply with the FLSA if it would reduct the employee's wage below the minimum wage or overtime pay due the employee.
Whether certain deductions from salaries of registered nurses would defeat the minimum wage and overtime pay exemption in section 13(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act
Length of service compensaton to volunteer firefighters appear to be a reasonable benefit. No determination whether the program would qualify as a "nominal fee".
Travel by an employee from home to a training site at the beginning and end of the workday is a home to work commute which is not compensable. However, if there is a custom, contract, or practice providing that employee's regular daily travel between home and the workplace Is compensable, such time will be so regarded under the provisions of the Portal-to-Portal Act.
29 U.S.C. 218 does not operate to preempt state laws establishing labor standards provided they do not diminish the minimum federal standards established by the FLSA.
Response to various overtime compensation matters with respect to on-call pay, standby pay, show-up pay under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement. Also excludability of such payments under 207(e)(3).
The definition of a public service agency as contained in 203(x) of the FLSA is not applied to a contract fire service disticts.
Public sector performing outside employment for a private employer and section 7(p)(1) as applicable to public agencies.
Where employees of a state or local government agency are performing activities that carry out the ongoing mission and day-to-day functions of the agency, rather than its management policies or the management policies of the state or political subdivision, such activities cannot be viewed as the type of duties contemplated by the 541 resgulations for exemption.
A roofing company has questions regarding Travel time; Portal to portal; Travel all in a days work; Travel away from home; payment of overtime for two different rates of pay
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