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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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States where neither state nor federal certificates of age, or State employment certificates or work permits are available, an employer may rely on the documents specified in Regulation 570. 10.
Minors delivering newspaper 13(d); Child labor
Reimbursement when uniforms receive special treatment because they are heavily soiled. That employees must be reimbursed for the cost of such maintenance on behalf of the employer.
Where an employer's payments under a bonus plan are based upon a percentage of total earnings of the employee, the payments may be excluded from the regular rate of pay if the conditions prescribed in 29 CFR Section 778.210 are met.
Student required to return portion of income to employer. Wage requirements will not be met if the employee "kicks-back" directly or indirectly to the employer or to another person for the employer's benefit
Section 778.106 when the correct amount overtime compensation cannot be determined until some time after the regular pay period, the requirements will be satisfied if the employer pays the excess overtime compensation as soon after the regular pay period as is practicable.
Section 785.43 time spent by an employee in waiting for and receiving medical attention on the premises or at the direction of the employer during the employee's normal working hours on days when the employee is working constitutes hours worked.
Section 7(e)(5) extra compensation provided by the premiums paid for hours worked on double shifts and double-back shifts need not be included in an employee's regular rate of pay for the purpose of computing overtime compensation due under Section 7(a)
Discussion on FLSA's monetary requirements to wages witheld for repayment of a debt
City or town in section 13(b)(9) of the FLSA refers to populate areas and would not encompass a non-urban land area such as a township, or town (minor civil divisions) not necessarily thickly-settle centers of population such as cities, boroughs, towns and villages
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