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This poster provides steps employers can take to reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus at fish and seafood processing and packaging facilities.

This poster provides steps employers can take to reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus at fish and seafood processing and packaging facilities.

This guidance helps employers understand and comply with OSHA’s temporary enforcement guidance for the Respiratory Protection standard (29 CFR § 1910.134).

This document represents OSHA’s summary of the scope of coverage and protected activity and the procedures for investigating and adjudicating retaliation complaints under the National Transit Systems Security Act.

This Field Assistance Bulletin (FAB) provides guidance regarding employers' obligation under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA or Act) to track the number of hours of compensable work performed by employees who are teleworking or otherwise working remotely away from any worksite or premises controlled by their employers.

The fact sheet provides an overview of an interim final rule issued in response to the SECURE Act’s requirement that defined contribution plans include two lifetime income illustrations in participant’s pension benefit statements at least once every 12 months.

This alert provides steps employers can take to reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus among food truck workers.

This alert provides steps employers can take to reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus among food truck workers.

This alert provides steps operators or workers at hair or nail salons can take to reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus.

This alert provides steps operators or workers at hair or nail salons can take to reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus.

This poster provides steps employers can take to reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus among automotive service workers.

This poster provides steps employers can take to reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus among automotive service workers.

This document provides an overview of whistleblower protections under the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century (AIR21) in Spanish.

This document provides an overview of whistleblower protections under the Pipeline Safety Improvement Act in Spanish.

This document provides an overview of whistleblower protections under the Pipeline Safety Improvement Act.

Air carriers and their contractors and subcontractors are prohibited from retaliating against employees for reporting alleged violations of Federal laws related to aviation safety or engaging in other protected activities.

The intent of this directive is to establish policies and procedures for the creation, implementation, and evaluation of whistleblower protection pilot programs.

This poster provides steps employers can take to reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus at meat, poultry and pork processing and packaging facilities.

This poster provides steps employers can take to reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus at meat, poultry and pork processing and packaging facilities.

This poster provides steps employers can take to reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus at meat, poultry and pork processing and packaging facilities in Arabic.

This poster provides steps employers can take to reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus at meat, poultry and pork processing and packaging facilities in Brazilian Portuguese.

This poster provides steps employers can take to reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus at meat, poultry and pork processing and packaging facilities in Chinese Simplified.

This poster provides steps employers can take to reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus at meat, poultry and pork processing and packaging facilities in Chinese Traditional.

This poster provides steps employers can take to reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus at meat, poultry and pork processing and packaging facilities in French.

This poster provides steps employers can take to reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus at meat, poultry and pork processing and packaging facilities in French Creole.

This poster provides steps employers can take to reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus at meat, poultry and pork processing and packaging facilities in Hmong.

This poster provides steps employers can take to reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus at meat, poultry and pork processing and packaging facilities in Korean.

This poster provides steps employers can take to reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus at meat, poultry and pork processing and packaging facilities in Kunama.

This poster provides steps employers can take to reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus at meat, poultry and pork processing and packaging facilities in Marshallese.

This poster provides steps employers can take to reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus at meat, poultry and pork processing and packaging facilities in Nepali.

This poster provides steps employers can take to reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus at meat, poultry and pork processing and packaging facilities in Polish.

This poster provides steps employers can take to reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus at meat, poultry and pork processing and packaging facilities in Portuguese.

This poster provides steps employers can take to reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus at meat, poultry and pork processing and packaging facilities in Somali.

This poster provides steps employers can take to reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus at meat, poultry and pork processing and packaging facilities in Thai.

This poster provides steps employers can take to reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus at meat, poultry and pork processing and packaging facilities in Vietnamese.

Webpage to support the control and prevention of COVID-19 in airline operations.

Webpage to support the control and prevention of COVID-19 in border protection and transportation security.

Webpage to support the control and prevention of COVID-19 in business travel.

Webpage to support the control and prevention of COVID-19 in correctional facilities.

Webpage to support the control and prevention of COVID-19 in dentistry.

Webpage to support the control and prevention of COVID-19 in emergency response.

Webpage to support the control and prevention of COVID-19 in environmental services.

Webpage to support the control and prevention of COVID-19 in healthcare.

Webpage to support the control and prevention of COVID-19 in in-home repair services.

Webpage to support the control and prevention of COVID-19 in laboratories.

Webpage to support the control and prevention of COVID-19 in oil and gas industry.

Webpage to support the control and prevention of COVID-19 in postmortem care.

Webpage to support the control and prevention of COVID-19 in retail operations.

Webpage to support the control and prevention of COVID-19 in solid waste and wastewater management.

This Field Assistance Bulletin (FAB) provides guidance regarding when schools that have physically closed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic are nonetheless considered to be in session for the purposes of the child labor laws applicable to the employment of children under the age of 16 in agricultural and nonagricultural employment.

This Field Assistance Bulletin (FAB) provides guidance for Wage and Hour Division (WHD) investigators regarding when an employee may take leave under the Family First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) to care for his or her child based on the closure of a summer camp, summer enrichment program, or other summer program for COVID-19 related reasons.

Joint Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance developed in consultation with FDA to protect seafood processing workers from COVID-19.

Application of the retail or service commission sales exemption under Section 7(i) of the FLSA, where more than half of an employee's compensation in the relevant representative period ultimately does not consist of commissions

Whether emergency-management coordinators employed by a county government qualify for the learned professional or administrative exemptions under Section 13(a)(1) of the FLSA

Whether salespeople who set up displays and perform demonstrations at various retail locations not owned, operated, or controlled by their employer to sell the employer's products qualify for the outside sales employee xemption under Section 13(a)(1) of the FLSA

Whether an automobile manufacturer's direct payments to an automobile dealership's employee, compensating the employee for work done on behalf of the dealership, may count toward the dealership's minimum wage obligation to the employee under the FLSA

Whether salespeople who travel to different locations to sell products using their employer's mobile assets qualify for the outside sales exemption under section 13(a)(1) of the FLSA

This Instruction establishes inspection procedures and enforcement policies for the Respirable Crystalline Silica Standards, 29 CFR § 1910.1053 and 29 CFR § 1926.1153.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has developed the following guidance in Spanish to assist employers and workers in safely returning to work and reopening businesses deemed by local authorities as “non-essential businesses” during the evolving Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has developed the following guidance to assist employers and workers in safely returning to work and reopening businesses deemed by local authorities as “non-essential businesses” during the evolving Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

This Field Assistance Bulletin provides guidance to WHD field staff regarding the practice of seeking liquidated damages in settlements in lieu of litigation.

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

Some of the guidance in FAQs Part 43 has been superseded by guidance contained in FAQs Part 51.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) informs employers that a qualitative or quantitative fit test must be performed to confirm that a respirator forms a tight seal against the user's face before being used in the workplace.

Public notice that OFLC wil be extending issuance of electronic PERM certifications through Sept. 30

This poster provides simple steps on how to properly put on and take off a respirator.

This page includes frequently asked questions (FAQs) and answers related to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

PURPOSE: To inform the staff of OA and the State Apprenticeship Agencies (SAA), Registered Apprenticeship program sponsors, Registered Apprenticeship partners, and other interested parties of OA’s decision to rescind, in accordance with the mandate contained in Executive Order 13891, previously-issued guidance documents in the form of circulars that OA has determined are no longer valid, are outdated, or do not serve an appropriate or useful purpose.

Information Letter to Jon W. Breyfogle, Esq.

Information Letter under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) concerning private equity investments as a component of a professionally managed asset allocation fund offered as a investment option for participants in defined contribution plans. Supplemental statement issued December 21, 2021.

To rescind and replace FAQ regarding automatic extensions granted as a result of COVID-19 Round 1 guidance and inform public that extensions will only be approved on ad hoc basis

Tips to help reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus among stockroom or loading dock workers.

Tips to help reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus among stockroom or loading dock workers in Spanish.

This alert provides steps employers can take to implement social distancing in the workplace in Spanish.

This document provides an overview of whistleblower protections under the Taxpayer First Act in Spanish.

This document provides an overview of whistleblower protections under the Taxpayer First Act.

This alert provides steps employers can take to implement social distancing in the workplace.

This guidance for construction supplements the general, interim guidance for all workers and employers of workers with potential occupational exposures to SARS-CoV-2.

Provides tips to help reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus for Manufacturing Facilities in Spanish

Provides tips to help reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus for Manufacturing Facilities

This Updated Interim Enforcement Response Plan for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) provides instructions and guidance to Area Offices and compliance safety and health officers (CSHOs) for handling COVID-19-related complaints, referrals, and severe illness reports.

Video about assembly line worker safety during COVID-19 in Spanish.

Video about assembly line worker safety during COVID-19.

This memorandum provides updated interim guidance to Compliance Safety and Health Officers (CSHOs) for enforcing the requirements of 29 CFR Part 1904 with respect to the recording of occupational illnesses, specifically cases of COVID-19.

Provides tips to help reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus for Nursing homes and Long-Term Care Facilities in Spanish

Provides tips to help reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus for Nursing homes and Long-Term Care Facilities

Provides tips to help reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus for retail pharmacies in Spanish.

Provides tips to help reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus for Retail Pharmacies

Provides tips to help reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus for Ridesharing, Taxis, and Car Services in Spanish

Provides tips to help reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus for Ridesharing, Taxis, and Car Services

Tips to help reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus in the car service industry.

Tips to help reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus in the car service industry in Spanish.

Tips to help reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus in a nursing home or long-term care facility.

Tips to help reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus in a nursing home or long-term care facility in Spanish.

Video about handwashing practices to keep workers safe during COVID-19.

Video about putting on and taking off a mask during COVID-19 in Spanish.

Provides tips to help reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus for dental practitioners in Spanish.

Provides tips to help reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus for dental practioners

Video about delivery worker safety during COVID-19 in Spanish.

Video about delivery worker safety during COVID-19.

This poster provides simple steps on how to properly put on and take off a respirator. 

This poster provides simple steps on how to properly put on and take off a respirator.