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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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
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Outlines procedures for labor standards cases that are referred to Department of Justice
Encloses Optional Payroll forms developed by the Solicitor of Labor
By procalmation f the President on March 29, 1971, Proclamation 4031 of February 23, 1971 is revoked as to all construction contracts for which solicitations for bids or proposals were issued after the date of this Proclamation, whether direct federal construction or federally assisted construction. By Executive Order 11588, on March 29, 1971, the President esstablished a wage and price stabilization mechanism for the construction industry, under which DBA and similar State wage determinations were not to take into consideration "wage or salary increases in excess of that found to be acceptable."
As DOL had worked out an arrangement to publish approximately 400 area (general) Davis-Bacon and Related Acts wage determinations in the Federal Register with the geographic scope and limits of application clearly stated in the published wage determination heading. The area wage determinations had been issued for certain areas/federal agencies but had not previously been published. The AAM issued a schedule for wage determinations to be published on Fridays for areas in specific states from April 6, 1971 through September 3, 1971. Subsequently, new wage determinations, replacements, or modifications to particular area determinations would be published in Friday issues of the Federal Register.
Due to a problem GPO encountered, the schedule issued in AAM 98 for publishing Davis-Bacon "area (general) wage determinations" in the Federal Register was revised, still to begin on Friday August 6, 1971 and to extend through Friday September 3, 1971 (spreading out publication by the addition of three Wednedsays for the initial schedule).
Administrator of Wage & Hour Division provides copy of ruling relating to "assemblers" under the Act.
Administrator of Wage & Hour Division announces a revised Standard From 98.
DOL issues guidance clarifying AAM 117, deferring implementation of the policy changes contained in that AAM.
DOL announced availability of revised SCA /WHPCA Posters.
Semi-annual Labor Standards Enforcement Report format revisions.
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