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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Guidance on the exercise of shareholder rights and written statements of investment policy, including proxy voting policies or guidelines. This guidance modified and superceded the guidance set forth in Intrepretive Bulletin 94-2 (July, 1994).
Attached a copy of the revised poster (GPO: 1971 0 -421-384)
Encloses Assistant Secretary of Labor guidance regarding the notice to employees of wages withheld by agencies.
Encloses Solicitor of Labor Opinion DB-51 determining that assembly & erection of nuclear reactor is subject to DBA
Transfer of certain responsibilities under Secretary of Labor's Order 21-67 from the Solicitor of Labor to the Administrator of WHPC;Directory of WHPC Regional and District Offices
29 CFR 5.7(b) requires al agencies administering the DBRA and CWHSA to submit a semi-annual enforcement report to U.S. DOL; Form in use was provided by AAM #65. Submits proposed form (with instructions) for comments by Jan. 31, 1969 to enable final version to be used for July 31, 1969 reporting.
Small agencies may refer complaints to WHPC for investigation. Four attachments: Directory of WHPC Regional and District Offices; Manual - for Government Use only (March 1952, revised March 1967); 29 CFR Parts 3 & 5.
Emphasis on requirement that agencies requesting wage rates for application to DBA/DBRA projects provide "pertinent wage payment data," to enable DOL to appropriately predetermine prevailing rates for prospective projects. A footnote highlights best sources of information for residential construction.
DBA Coverage
DBA requires payment "at wage rates not less than those stated in the advertised specifications, regardless of any contractural relationship which may be alleged to exist between the contractor or subcontractor and such laborers and mechanics ..." In U.S. v. Landis and Young, 16 F. Supp. 832, the court allowed an electrical contractor's claim for more than the fixed price plaintiff agreed to in contracting to perform electrical work because the object of that DBA provision is to require, as a matter of policy, all persons performing the duties of a laborer or mechanic on a covered rproject at least the predetermined minimum of wages according to the scale named.
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