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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Contributions made for the establishment and maintenance of IRAs on behalf of employees would not affect the regular rate of pay as it depends on the purpose of the plan and not on the amount of contributions an employer may make on an employee's behalf.
Deductions for uniforms purchase or maintenance can not reduce the hourly wage of a tip employee below the requirement minimum wage.
The letter provides guidance on determining the proper fringe benefit payments to workers under an SCA contract and a section 14(c) certificate authority.
Voluntary payment for travel time that is not considered hours worked under the FLSA are excluded from the regular rate of pay for purpose of computing overtime (Section 778.320(b))
Employees of a ski resort who, in addition to their maintenance and repair work, engage in the erection of new structures, buildings, and places of entertainment are not within the section 13(a)(3) exemption in any workweek that some construction work is performed and entitled to minimum wage and overtime compensation of not less than one and one-half times their regular rate of pay for all hours worked in excess of 40 in the workweek.
Applying section 3(m) criteria to determine the "reasonable cost" or "fair value" of facilities furnished to employees.
Whether county retirement plan deductions would be considered amounts required by law to be withheld for purposes of determining disposable earnings subject to CCPA Title III garnishment limits.
Applying section 3(m) criteria to determine the "reasonable cost" or "fair value" of facilities furnished to employees in sheltered workshops.
Applying 29 CFR 785.27 four criteria : attendance outside employee's working hours, directly related to the employees job; primarily for the benefit of the employee; voluntary attendance to time spent by ambulance service paramedics in a State mandated training program
Applying exemptions under subsections 13(a)(6)(C) & (D) of the FLSA, seasonal agricultural employees paid on a piecework basis; defining a "week" of farm work, and what percentage of seasonal farmworkers performing agricultural work and compensated on a piecework basis would be exempt under these subsections; and limitations on deductions that employers may claim for accommodation or other benefits when compensating agricultural piece workers
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