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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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- If you are searching using an acronym, try a second search with the acronym spelled out. For example, if you are searching for guidance related to the Davis-Bacon Act, try searching "Davis-Bacon Act" as well as "DBA".
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Ex 1: Employee paid two times one half the regular rate found by dividing the guaranteed salary by the number of hours worked for each hour worked in excess of 40 hours in a workweek. Ex 2: the guaranteed salary would be divided by 40 hours and one half this amount would be paid for each hour worked in excess of 40 hours in a workweek. Section 778.114
The profit-sharing plan payments are made on an employee's behalf as a result of his election to reduce his salary under a cash of deferred arrangement as described in Section 401k. Is plan includable in wages under section 3(m).
Multiple questions regarding overtime computations.
Employees do tilling, cultivating, and harvesting fruit and vegetables, the farm operates a retail farm market. Agriculture or irrigation section 13(b)(12)
Bonuses under the plans will be distributed in terms of "cents per hour" (bonus wages rate) and will be based on actual hours worked. The payment will be adjusted for overtime hours. Section 7(e)
Medical laboratory is a non-profit corporation solely owned by hospitals in the area. ISection 7(j) does not apply to the employees because they are not deemed to be employed by an "employer engaged in the operation of a hospital.
Breeding dairy and beef cattles practices performed are within the meaning of Section 3(f). Employees exclusively engaged in such activities during a workweek are exempt from overtime premium pay pursuant to Section 13(b)(12).
Flat fee payments for cleaning or reconditioning used cars which are paid without regard to the value of the service performed do not represent "commissions on goods or services" for the purposes of section 7(i). Employees subjected to overtime under section 7(a).
Travel time and premium pay received. sections 778.201 and 778.206, section 7(e)(7) that extra compensation provided by a premium rate paid "in pursuance of an applicable employment contract or collective-bargaining agreement for work outside of hours established in good faith by the contract or agreement.
Determining whether recruiters specialized in functional area such as insurance, accouning, finance and data processing meets 13(a)(l) exemption.
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