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This Training and Employment Guidance Letter announces the availability of up to $43 million for the CAREER (Comprehensive and Accessible Reemployment through Equitable Employment Recovery) National Dislocated Worker Grants (DWGs), with award amounts of up to $3 million. These funds will support the public workforce system in connecting job seekers to employment as the economy recovers from the impacts of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

This direction establishes inspection procedures and enforcement policies for the COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard, 29 CFR § 1910.502, and 29 CFR § 1910.504.

This pamphlets reminds employers and workers of ways to protect themselves and others during outdoor and indoor heat exposure, (in Spanish).

This pamphlet reminds employers and workers of ways to protect themselves and others during outdoor and indoor heat exposure (in English).

A sample presentation developed by OSHA that employers or other instructors may customize and use to train their employees according to the requirements of OSHA’s COVID-19 ETS, 29 CFR 1910.504.

A sample presentation developed by OSHA that employers or other instructors may customize and use to train their employees according to the requirements of OSHA’s COVID-19 ETS, 29 CFR 1910.502.

This flow chart explains the steps that employers must take when notified an employee is COVID-19 positive, told by a licensed healthcare provider that they are suspected to have COVID-19 or is experiencing certain COVID-19 symptoms, or has been in close contact with a COVID-19 positive person in the workplace.

This flow chart explains when you need to notify your employer about COVID-19-related issues, when your employer must notify you about COVID-19 exposures in the workplace, and when your employer must remove you from the workplace.

This document, in Spanish, provides sample questions that may be used by employers to screen their employees for COVID-19 symptoms or develop screening protocols.

This document provides sample questions that may be used by employers to screen their employees for COVID-19 symptoms or develop screening protocols.

In response to OSHA’s COVID-19 Healthcare ETS, employers should consider using the following questions as part of your discussions to help ensure that needed information is shared and that your plan is sufficiently protective.

In response to OSHA's COVID-19 Healthcare ETS, this document helps employers notify their employees about potential COVID-19 exposure in the workplace.

This document explains the reporting requirements of the COVID-19 Healthcare ETS.

In response to OSHA's COVID-19 Healthcare ETS, employers may use this worksite checklist to implement worker protections from COVID-19.

In response to OSHA's COVID-19 Healthcare ETS, employers with more than 10 employees may use this template to develop a written COVID‑19 plan for their workplace.

This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) transmits the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared from July 1 - September 30, 2021, (fourth quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2021).

In response to OSHA's COVID-19 Healthcare ETS, this document explains employer requirements and provides guidance for recording COVID-19 cases on the COVID -19 log.

Frequently asked questions on the COVID-19 Healthcare Emergency Temporary Standard.

This fact sheet highlights, in Spanish, new requirements in the COVID-19 Healthcare ETS to prevent worker exposure to the coronavirus and ways it protects workers from retaliation for exercising their rights under the ETS.

This fact sheet highlights new requirements in the COVID-19 Healthcare ETS to prevent worker exposure to the coronavirus and ways it protects workers from retaliation for exercising their rights under the ETS.

Outlines the mini respiratory protection program (29 CFR 1910.504) that is one part of the OSHA COVID-19 Healthcare ETS that applies when workers are not exposed to suspected or confirmed sources of COVID-19 but where respirator use could offer enhanced worker protection.

This fact sheet highlights, in Spanish, some of the new requirements of the healthcare ETS aimed at protecting workers facing the highest COVID-19 hazards—those working in healthcare settings where suspected or confirmed COVID-19 patients are treated.

This fact sheet highlights some of the new requirements of the healthcare ETS aimed at protecting workers facing the highest COVID-19 hazards— those working in healthcare settings where suspected or confirmed COVID-19 patients are treated.

This summary, in Spanish, highlights some of the new requirements of the COVID-19 ETS; employers should consult the standard for full details.

This summary, in English, highlights some of the new requirements of the COVID-19 ETS; employers should consult the standard for full details.

This fact sheet summarizes OSHA’s COVID-19 ETS, contained in 29 CFR 1910 Subpart U.

OSHA issued an emergency temporary standard to protect healthcare and healthcare support service workers from occupational exposure to COVID-19 in settings where people with COVID-19 are reasonably expected to be.

This webpage provides information and resources for employers and workers about the rule, including enforcement, and implementing the rule.

Employers may use this flow chart to determine whether and how your workplace is covered by the ETS.

Information Letter to Cassie Springer Ayeni.

Information Letter concerning whether the provisions of the claims procedure regulation at 29 CFR 2560.503-1 require the plan to provide to a claimant, a copy of an audio recording of a telephone conversation relating to an adverse benefit determination.

This set of FAQs addresses limitations on cost sharing under the Affordable Care Act.

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) will assist State Workforce Agencies or agencies designated by Governors as "Cooperating State Agencies" (CSAs or "states") to implement the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Program reversion provisions of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Reauthorization Act of 2015 (TAARA 2015) by providing operating instructions that apply to the program benefits applicable to adversely affected workers covered by petitions filed on or after July 1, 2021, and by identifying prior guidance that remains applicable to CSAs. Employment and Training Administration (ETA) refers to this version of the TAA Program, described in these operating instructions set out in Attachment A, as "Reversion 2021."

This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) requests that states provide the Department of Labor (Department), using Form MA 8-7, information pertaining to state compliance for receipt of emergency administrative grants. Additionally, this UIPL clarifies the benefit offset requirements for collection of overpayments.

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) provides preparation and submission instructions and conveys grant allotments for Program Year (PY) 2021.

This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter provides guidance to states regarding UC flexibilities related to COVID-19, specifically on how states can use the STC program to support reopening the economy.

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) provides INA grantees with Comprehensive Services Program (CSP) and Supplemental Youth Services Program (SYSP) funding allotments for PY 2021 for the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Section 166 programs, and notifies grantees of the required submission of Standard Form (SF) 424 - Application for Federal Assistance, SF 424A - Budget Information (Non-Construction Programs), and Budget Narrative.

This pamphlet reminds employers and workers of the importance of personal protective equipment (PPE) to minimize worker exposure to hazards and keep workers safe during natural disasters, biological hazards, accidental releases, and terrorism events.

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL), Change 1, provides clarification on Registered Apprenticeship Programs (RAPs) as WIOA Title I Eligible Training Providers (ETP).

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL), Change 1, provides clarification on Registered Apprenticeship Programs (RAPs) as WIOA Title I Eligible Training Providers (ETP).

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) provides guidance to State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) regarding FY 2021 annual grant allocations for foreign labor certification activities.

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) provides SCSEP grantees with PY 2021 allotments and grant application instructions, and dissemination of annual Federal poverty guidelines used in SCSEP eligibility determinations.

This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter advises states of appropriate circumstances for assessing a monetary fraud penalty and for assessing interest and other collection costs on benefit overpayments created under the CARES Act (Public Law (Pub. L.) 116-136), as amended; and to provide instructions for circumstances under which a state may waive recovery of overpayments, including limited circumstances for permissible use of "blanket waivers."

This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter provides guidance to states on the proportional distribution methodology for recovering federally funded UC benefits, which are held by banks and financial institutions as a result of suspicious and/or potentially fraudulent activity.

This QuickCard outlines worker information on the beryllium lymphocyte proliferation test (BeLPT) that determines if the immune system reacts to beryllium as a foreign substance.

This QuickCard outlines what a beryllium medical surveillance program is that is offered to workers by employers to detect health effects related to beryllium exposure.

This guidance highlights and explains certain medical surveillance requirements in OSHA’s health standards for beryllium.

This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter provides information to states about the FY 2021 UI State Administration base resource allocations, general guidelines for resource planning, above-base funding, and SBRs. 

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) provides information to states and outlying areas on Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Title I Adult, Dislocated Worker and Youth Activities program allotments for Program Year (PY) 2021; final PY 2021 allotments for the Wagner-Peyser Act Employment Service (ES) Program, as required by section 6(b)(5) of the Wagner-Peyser Act, as amended; and the allotments of Workforce Information Grants to states for PY 2021.

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) provides guidance on the alignment of reporting requirements in the Participant Individual Record Layout (PIRL) and the ETA-9130, while further providing information on how to document specific scenarios within the submitted data.

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) provides guidance to Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) grantees regarding updates to the priority of service provisions, durational limit waiver categories, and State Plan requirements due to the passage of the Supporting Older Americans Act of 2020, which reauthorized the Older Americans Act (OAA) and included new provisions regarding certain individuals who were formerly incarcerated or under supervision following release from prison or jail.

Helps plan sponsors and fiduciaries prudently select a service provider with strong cybersecurity practices and monitor their activities, as ERISA requires.

Assists plan fiduciaries and record-keepers in their responsibilities to manage cybersecurity risks.

This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter highlights the importance of identity verification in ensuring the proper payment of unemployment benefits and to provide guidance to states on required administrative procedures when processing claims and determining UI eligibility in cases where an individual's identity (ID) is questionable. 

This Field Assistance Bulletin (FAB) rescinds FAB 2020-2 and provides updated guidance to Wage and Hour Division (WHD) field staff regarding the practice of seeking liquidated damages in settlements in lieu of litigation (liquidated damages).

This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter provides guidance on certain amendments related to the EB program contained in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, Public Law (Pub. L.) 117-2.

This set of FAQs addresses Mental Health Parity Implementation and the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021.

The FAQs provide guidance on PTE 2020-02 and information on the Department’s next steps in its regulation of investment advice.

This Change 1 to the Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 06-20 conveys the remaining balance for WOTC and explains application requirements for State Workforce Agencies (SWA) based on funding appropriated for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 through September 30, 2022. Additionally, this TEGL announces 12 states selected to receive additional FY 2021 backlog funding and provides instructions to those states on how to proceed. The remainder of TEGL No. 06-20 remains the same.

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) provides adjusted funding levels for PY 2020 allotments for the DW program under WIOA Title I Section 132(c) on recapture and reallotment.

This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) provides updated procedural guidance to state workforce agencies (SWA) on the WOTC certification process. This TEGL and the materials and forms it discusses supersede the guidance outlined in the Third Edition of Employment and Training Administration (ETA) Handbook No. 408, published in November 2002, and its August 2009 Addendum.

This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) provides guidance about the extension of the FPUC and the MEUC program authorized by Section 9013 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, Public Law (Pub. L.) 117-2.

This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter provides guidance about the changes to the PEUC program authorized by Section 9016 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA), Public Law (Pub. L.) 117-2.

This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter provides states with instructions for implementing the recent statutory changes to the emergency unemployment relief for state and local governmental entities, certain nonprofit organizations, and federally-recognized Indian Tribes provided in ARPA, Public Law (Pub. L.) 117-2, which amends Section 903(i) of the Social Security Act (SSA) (42 U.S.C. § 1103(i)).

Letter of Interpretation regarding the recordkeeping regulation contained in 29 CFR Part 1904 – Recording and Reporting Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Specifically, the letter clarifies whether two related reportable events under 29 CFR 1904.39, “Reporting fatalities, hospitalizations, amputations, and losses of an eye,” should each be cited for the purposes of OSHA recordkeeping, or whether a company may report only the initial event.

The Unemployment Insurance Program Letter transmits the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared from April 1- June 30, 2021, (third quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2021). 

This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter advises states of the enactment of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA or Act) (Pub. L. 117-2), specifically Title IX, Subtitle A, Crisis Support for Unemployed Workers, on March 11, 2021, and provides an overview and instructions for implementing ARPA's UI-related provisions. 

Statement on enforcement of final rules on ESG Investments and Proxy Voting by Employee Benefit Plans.

This set of FAQs addresses the Families First Coronavirus Response Act and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act.

The Provider Relief Fund, described in Q14 in FAQs set 44, no longer accepts claims for testing, treatment, or COVID-19 vaccination.

This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) provides states with updated guidance for the PUA program, specifically regarding expanded eligibility provisions authorized under Section 2102(a)(3)(A)(ii)(I)(kk) of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.

This notice provides guidance on the duration of the COVID-19-related relief provided by EBSA Disaster Relief Notice 2020-01 and the Joint Notice of Extension of Certain Timeframes for Employee Benefit Plans, Participants, and Beneficiaries Affected by the COVID–19 Outbreak.

Incidental releases of hazardous substances that can be safely controlled by maintenance personnel are not considered to be emergency response scenarios.

Revised June 10, 2021, this guidance is intended to help employers and workers not covered by OSHA's COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) to identify COVID-19 exposure risks to workers who are unvaccinated or otherwise at-risk.

Encourages keeping workers at COVID-19 vaccination sites safe by following OSHA’s Bloodborne Pathogens standard to prevent sharps injuries in Spanish.

Encourages keeping workers at COVID-19 vaccination sites safe by following OSHA’s Bloodborne Pathogens standard to prevent sharps injuries.

Addressing whether certain local small-town and community news source journalists are creative or learned professionals under Section 13(a)(1) of the FLSA.

Addressing whether the FLSA's "retail or service establishment" exemption applies to staffing firms that recruit, hire, and place employees on assignments with clients.

WHD FOH Chapter on field sanitation and temporary labor lamp standards in agriculture under the OSH Act

Defines under 29 CFR 541 the terms "executive", "administrative", "professional", "computer", and "outside sales" employees for purposes of the section 13(a)(1) exemption from minimum wage and overtime. Section 13(a)(17) exempts computer systems analysts, and other similarly skilled workers in the computer field who meet certain tests regarding their job duties and are paid at a rate not less than $27.63 an hour.

WHD FOH Chapter on exemptions concerning FLSA agriculture

WHD FOH 16 contains the Wage and Hour Division (WHD)'s interpretative positions regarding Title III of the Consumer Credit Protection Act (CCPA).

Addressing the proper calculation of overtime pay under the FLSA for tipped employees receiving tips and amounts charged as automatic gratuities or service charges.

Addressing whether certain entities satisfy the "establishment" requirement under Section 13(a)(3) of the FLSA, and whether an accrual method of accounting may be used to satisfy the "Receipts Test" under Section 13(a)(3)(B).

This handbook sets forth general procedures for conducting inspections of impoundments and tailings dams at coal and metal and nonmetal mines consistent with Section 103(a) of the Mine Act.

Temporary enforcement policy regarding the transfer of a missing or non-responsive participant’s account balance in a terminating or abandoned individual account plan to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.

To inform the staff of the Office of Apprenticeship (OA), State Apprenticeship Agencies (SAA), and Registered Apprenticeship program sponsors and potential sponsors about OA’s policy and process for reviewing requests from program sponsors in federally-administered States to establish or revise their ratio of apprentices to journeyworkers pursuant to the applicable regulatory provision governing such ratios at Title 29 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), section 29.5(b)(7).  This circular is intended to articulate the methodology for OA’s process to consider ratio requests in federally-administered States.  The guidance will enable OA to ensure a consistent approach in making determinations on ratio requests from program sponsors and employers. 

This guidance is part of EBSA’s ongoing efforts to help plan fiduciaries meet their obligations to locate and distribute retirement benefits to missing or nonresponsive participants.

The 2015 Inflation Adjustment Act requires OSHA to adjust the level of civil monetary penalties annually for inflation (based on the Consumer Price Index) by January 15 of each year.

Addressing whether account managers at a life science products manufacturer qualify for the administrative employee exemption under the FLSA,

Whether the ministerial exception allows a private religious daycare and preschool to pay its teachers on a salary basis that would not otherwise conform with the requirements of the FLSA.

This guidance offers best practices for mall and shopping center operators to prevent transmission of COVID-19 among workers and customers.

Whether certain travel time occurring on a telework day is compensable under the FLSA

Whether certain overtime payments based on an expected number of hours worked may be credited towards the amount of overtime pay owed under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and whether such overtime payments are excludable from the regular rate.

When WHD considers telemedicine an "in-person" visit for the purposes of establishing a serious health condition qualifying for protection under the Family and Medical Leave Act.

This handbook sets forth procedures for the conduct of investigations of accidents at the Nation’s mines. The procedures in this handbook are intended to serve as organizational, technical, and instructional aids for MSHA’s accident investigations with the recognition that investigator discretion may be appropriate based on circumstances specific to individual investigations. This handbook does not create legal obligations or confer legal rights for any persons or entities.

This handbook sets forth guidelines and instructions for conducting special investigations pursuant to Title I of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, as amended. The guidelines and instructions in this handbook are primarily procedural and administrative, and they are intended to serve solely as organizational and technical aids for Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) personnel.

When, as a matter of enforcement policy, WHD will consider electronic posting by employers by email or an internet or intranet website to satisfy the employer's requirement to provide employees with the required notice of their statutory rights under a variety of federal labor laws.

The PSM standard is performance-based and does not specify the way an employer documents, compiles, or tracks actions taken on a process hazard analysis (PHA) or a facility siting study's findings and recommendations.

Use of a leaf blower to remove silica dust from clothing may increase employees’ exposures; an alternative is the use of a small HEPA-filtered vacuum that does not pose a risk of injury.

If gloves have been electrically tested but not issued for service, they may not be placed into service unless they have been electrically tested within the previous 12 months.

The exposed employee’s blood should be tested for HBV and HIV after consent is obtained, regardless of the status of the source patient.