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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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
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The letter analyses whether a provider may charge a fee to disabled employees to support training programs. The letter concludes that a provider may charge clients for services that are unrelated to their employment in a work program.
Public sector employee substitution of workdays under section 7(p)(3) and public agencies, overtime pay, and 207K work period for law enforcement
Drivers of school buses owned and operated by school districts do not qualify for the 13(b)(1) exemption and are entitled to overtime compensation as provided by the FLSA.
DOL advised agencies fo FLSA Amendments raising the minimum wage and its effect on DBA and SCA contracts
The employees of the street department who also worked as volunteer firefighters did not do so on an occasional or sporadic basis as required in section 7(p)(2), so their hours of work for the city as firefighters must be combined with their hours worked for the street department in computing proper FLSA overtime.
Opines that those nonexempt employees who work this schedule must be paid one and one-half times their regular rate of pay for hours worked over 40 in a workweek. Also notes that section 207(o) authorizes a public agency to provide compensatory time off within certain limintations.
Compensable hours worked by trooper recruits attenting trainings at training academy and 29 CFR 553.226(c)
Regarding HO 17 excavation operations and Student learners exception; child labor occupations
Employees paid under incentive compensation system due addtional half-time premium for overtime hours worked.
Village zoning inspector is not subject to civil service laws and excluded from coverage under FLSA section 3(e)(2)(c).
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