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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.
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Application of CCPA Title III discharge prohibition to suspension policies and to garnishment orders a year apart.
Whether the payment plan proposed by the employer meets the requirements of payment on a workweek basis.
Whether exemption is applicable for drivers for a soft drink bottler and distributer.
Tank erection ladders are classified as being a portable metal ladder. - [1926.451]
Whether CCPA Title III garnishment limits apply to paid sick time.
Whether the contributions and payments made to the subject plan qualify for exclusion from the participating employee's regular rates of pay.
Whether a statute of limitations applies to the CCPA Title III discharge prohibition.
Administrator of Wage & Hour Division announces SF 308, Request for Determination and Response to Request.
Color of exit signs. - [1910.37; 1910.37(b)(6)]
Whether the employer is in compliance with the exemption, Section 13(a)(10) switchboard operators and other telephonic services.
The "bona fides" of providing sick leave pay for employees who are considered exempt under Regulations, Part 541, issued pursuant to section 13(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Whether CCPA Title III garnishment orders apply to earnings deposited in a bank.
whether a physical examination primarily for the benefit of the employer is considered compensable time even after normal working hours.
Whether the conditions of section 7(i) are satisfied where an employer adds sufficient money to an employee's actual hourly earnings of $2.35 to bring his regular rate to at least $2.41 an hour.
Marking and width requirements for aisles in industrial operations. - [1910.22(b)]
Whether the employee's weekly hours needed to satisfY the overtime requirements of the fluctuating workweek method of compensation meet the requirements under FLSA.
Concerning the exemption status of an industrial nurse and technical writers under section 13( a)(l).
Application of 1910.106 to packaged alcoholic beverages. - [1910.106(d)]
Whether deductions for holidays on which no work is performed changes the status of your instructors as professional employees exemption.
Whether employees required to remain on the premises during strike should have hours counted as compensable hours worked.
Withholding in excess of CCPA Title III garnishment limits, and pay requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
Whether the employers method of computation satisfies the requirements of section 7(i)(1) of the act with respect to salesmen who are to be paid solely by commission.
Denial of state exemption application.
Special exception for certain flight personnel whom the Wage and Hour Division has deemed to be within the spirit of the provision in the Fair Labor Standards Act exempting “employees employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity” provided certain conditions are met.
Continues policy stated in AAM 71, that DOL will take no exception to the practice of paying summer employees below the predetermined journey level rate pursuant to a bona fide Youth Opportunity Program under certain conditions. Extending beyond what was stated in AAM 71.
With respect to pending procurement actions in the case of contracts not yet entered into as a result of the solicitation of bids or proposals during the period when Proclamation 4031 was effective, each agency should, if it can do so legally and without undue hardship, take such action to accomplish a resolicitation of bids or proposals as is authorized under the governing procurement laws and regulations and is most appropriate to effect a reinstatement of the application of the Davis-Bacon provisions to the proposed contract work.
Whether post doctoral fellows qualify for exemption under Section 541
Whether an establishment selling souveniers to general public and providing tours supervised by National Park Service would meet the criteria for amusement and recreational exemptions.
Consideration of state exemption application.
Suspension of Davis-Bacon Act. Administrator of Wage & Hour Division provides additional guidance regarding implementation of President's suspension of the Davis-Bacon Act.
This AAM provided clarification of certain aspects of AAM 91.
Denial of state exemption application.
Whether a reduction in the regular tuition charge to student workers at non-profit, or a grant credited to the student's account, would be considered a facility under section 3(m).
In view of contracting officers' responsibility to furnish posters to contrqctors receiving contracts subject to SCA or PCA, a new combined SCA & PCA poster (WH Publication 1313) replaces obsolete posters SC-1 & PC-13.
Whether CCPA Title III discharge prohibition applies when separate garnishment orders or a year apart.
CCPA Title III garnishment limits applied on a weekly or pay period basis.
Concerning an employee walking to a supervisor upon receiving his timecard, if such travel time would be considered hours worked within the meaning of section 4 of the Portal to Portal Act
Denial of state exemption application.
Whether tips are earnings under Title III of the CCPA.
Denial of state exemption application.
Whether transportation costs can be counted as facilities under Section 3(m).
Informs contracting agencies of recent reorganization affecting joint responsibilities of DOL and contracting agencies in administering the various government contracts programs: consolidation into one Office of Government Contracts Wage Standards wage determination functions under the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts, Service Contract Act, and Public Contracts Act. This office will also handle matters regarding interpretations, regulations, and exemptions relating to the various laws which provide wage standards for government contracts.
Application of Davis-Bacon Act
Whether CCPA Title III applies prior to the effective date of the Act, and wage assingments.
Whether employees may waive rights under CCPA Title III, and whether court ordered garnishments may include court costs and attorney fees.
Application of CCPA Title III garnishment limits to a hold-back period.
CCPA Title III discharge prohibiion and legal fees charged by garnishee's attorney.
Application of CCPA TItle III discharge prohibition to suspensions.
CCPA Title III discharge prohibition, and the effective date of a garnishment order.
Application of CCPA Title III garnishment limits to payment of a draw against commission.
Regarding the requirements and validity of 7(j) agreements between joint employers and temporary employees working in hospitals or residential care facilities using fixed work periods 14 consecutive days.
CCPA Title III discharge prohibition and IRS attachment.
Whether an employer can discharge an employee subject to a second garnishment, and distinction between a notice of garnishment and a garnishment order.
Concerning the requirements to qualify as a bona fide professional
CCPA Title III garnishment limits applications to wage assignments and deductions for savings bonds.
Regarding employees who regularly receive tips.
CCPA Title III discharge prohibition and garnishments on separate debts.
Denial of state exemption application.
Whether the seasonal operations within a national park meet the criteria for exemption under section 13(a)(3)
CCPA Title III exemptions from the garnishment limits and the Act's discharge provisions.
CCPA Title III discharge prohibition for "one indebtedness" and assignment of wages.
CCPA Tile III garnishment limits and state law (Ohio) with differing limits.
CCPA Title III discharge prohibition when a garnishment for a second debt is scheduled to follow garnishment for a first debt.
CCPA Title III garnishment limits and employer deductions from employees' wages for personal dry cleaning.
CCPA Title III discharge prohibition application to multiple levies and collection proceedings related to a single debt.
Application of CCPA Title III in the case of debt due for any State or Federal tax, including local school taxes and municipal occupational taxes.
Questions about CCPA Title III discharge prohibition for "one indebtedness."
To update policy on the promotion, development, approval and registration of programs
The workweek basis for determining the amount of disposable earnings which may be subjected to garnishment under Title III of the CCPA.
State of North Dakota applicaation for exemption.
CCPA Title III garnishment limits, and wage assignments.
Application of CCPA Title III discharge prohibitions to all garnishments, including tax debt garnishments.
CCPA Title III and state laws with more limited garnishment allowances.
Whether different types of deductions "required by law" are excluded from disposable earnings in applying CCPA Title III garnishment limits.
To assist agencies in carrying out their responsibilities under DBA & DBRA on federal and federally assisted construction, AAM 86 encloses principles WHPC/WHD applies regarding the 29 CFR 5.5(a)(1) contract clause phrase “site of the work” in the enforcem
Distributes copy of Release D-1228, which contained amended 29 CFR 5.14(d) as it appeared in the Federal Register on November 22, 1969, to add a new subparagraph (d)(2) providing that if funds withheld for violations are not sufficient to pay fully both the unpaid wages due laborers and mechanics and the liquidated damages due the United States, the available funds shall be used first to compensate the laborers and mechanics for the wages to which they are entitled.
Wage Appeals Board Decision and Order in Case No. 69-2 dated August 13, 1969
Concerning the assignment of Life Insurance Benefits
Comments received in response to AAM #79 were consideredRevised versio of the report enclosed; to be used in future reports beginning with the July 31, 1969 report.
The Moses Lake Job Corps Center for Women, Moses Lake, Washington, under the Fair Labor Standards Act
Whether certain professional golf facilites are under common control and performing related activities meet the exemption under 13(a)(3) and 3(r) for enterprise coverage.
Administrator introduced form WH-347, Weekly Payroll Statement.
Whether workers who provide janitorial services on site at a race track meet the exemption.
Application of the Fair Labor Standards Act to school food service employees
Concerning a response to a previous letter clarifying school food services workers; student voluteers, hours worked, child labor.
Whether exemptions apply to employees of automobile dealerships.
Encloses Solicitor of Labor Opinion DB-53 regarding enrollees or trainees participating in youth, poverty or manpower training programs while performing on federal construction contracts.
Explanation of proper application for a bona fide benefits plan under 7(e)(4).
Whether golf clubs and other estabishments may qualify for exemption under Section 13(a)(3).
Whether certain resort hotels and private clubs qualify for exemption under Section 13(a)(3).
Whether the Collective Bargaining Agreement certified through the National Labor Relations Board was properly submitted to WH for consideration of its payment plan.
FLSA does not prohibit an employer from paying his employees a different rate of pay during the busy season than in the slack season provided each rate is agreed upon and specified in advance, is in effect for a substantial period of time and is a bona fide rate i.e., the actual basis of straight time and overtime compensation.
This document continues to be used in conjunction with AAM 96; see AAM 96.
If a truck driver is off duty while sleeping aboard a truck in motion on sleeper equipment provided by the employer.
Whether certain deductions made for loans, savings by the employer may be considered as facilities under Section 3(m).
Encloses Solicitor of Labor Opinion DB-51 highlighting the requirement to physically include labor standards provisions in all subcontracts (superseded AAM #6, 5/13/58)
An assistant manager or manager of a leased department or store whose compensation is based on a percentage of store sales
The application of the overtime pay exemption provided in section 7(h) of the Fair Labor Standards Act to pest control servicemen, employed by the company at its various branches throughout the country
Regarding reappraisal of the method utilized for "average trip time" for local delivery drivers or helpers under 13(b)(11).
Encloses Solicitor of Labor Opinion DB-49 regarding satisfaction of DBA fringe benefit obligations.
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