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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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The seaman services are not rendered primarily as an aid in the operation of the vessel as a means of transportation. The crew of the vessel in question is not exempt under section 13(a)(12)
Retail, commissions 7(i) exemption
Employees are scheduled to work and be paid for seven hours. The employees are off duty and are not paid for two meal periods of 30 minutes uninterrupted.
Section 13(b)(9) of the Act provides an overtime pay exemption for any employee employed as an announcer, news editor, or chief engineer by a radio or television station
Trainees are not necessarily entitled to a job at the end of the training period, an employer-employee relationship would not exist between the client and the trainees during the training period.
Drivers pick-up and deliver to the client's warehouse defective television and stereo sets from customers within the State. The exemption contained in section 13(b)(l) of the Act would have no application to the drivers.
Plan's payments are garnishable subject to the disposable earnings limitations of Sections 303(a) and 303(b) of Title III of the Consumer Credit Protection act.
Company meets the definition of a retail or service establishment stated in section 13(a)(2) in order to qualify for the section 7(i) exemption.
DOL published significant changes in their DBA implementing regulations.
The application of the short test for exemption in section 541.(f) in light of the ruling of the Third Circuit in Marshall v. Western Union Telegraph Co., 24 WH Cases 704 (C.A. 3, 1980).
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