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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Washington, DC 20210
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WHD FOH Chapter on exemptions concerning FLSA agriculture
Addressing whether certain local small-town and community news source journalists are creative or learned professionals under Section 13(a)(1) of the FLSA.
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 16 contains the Wage and Hour Division (WHD)'s interpretative positions regarding Title III of the Consumer Credit Protection Act (CCPA).
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 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).
Addressing the proper calculation of overtime pay under the FLSA for tipped employees receiving tips and amounts charged as automatic gratuities or service charges.
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.
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