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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Employer sponsors a savings plan, open to all employees. Bona fide 7(e)(3) savings plan receive formal approval from the Administrator, provided the statutory and regulatory criteria are met, for employer contributions to be excluded from the regular rate of pay.
The pay plan described would not be in compliance with the MW provisions in the second month, as it offsets commissions prevously paid to the salesperson.
Paying Registered nurses on a fee basis, as discussed in section 541.313 of Regulations, 29 CFR Part 541, so that the employee could qualify for exemption as a bona fide professional employee under the upset salary proviso in section 541.3(e) of the regulations.
Automobile salespersons exempt from overtime under section 13(b)(10) of the Act. Painter in the body shop of an automobile dealership 7(i)
Section 13(d) would apply to the employees engaged in the delivery of this shopping news publication.
Warehouse and receiving personnel who engage in loading activities on a weekly basis, would come within the overtime pay exemption contained in section 13(b)( 1 ).
Law does not regulate work duty assignments, work schedules, or limit the number of hours in a day or days in a week that an adult employee (16 years of age or older) may be required to work.
Restaurant at state resort park open from March 21 through December 21 each year. Seventy-five percent of all restaurant receipts are received in the second and third quarters of each year. Does not meet 13(a)(3).
Compensate registered nurses under an "8/80" overtime plan on a per diem pay basis.
Proposed shopping news publication would be a newspaper for the purpose of section 13(d) of the Act, and the employees exclusively engaged in the delivery of the news or the company's daily newspaper would come within the 13(d) exemption.
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