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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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
200 Constitution Ave NW
Washington, DC 20210
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Temporary enforcement policy regarding the transfer of a missing or non-responsive participant’s account balance in a terminating or abandoned individual account plan to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
This guidance is part of EBSA’s ongoing efforts to help plan fiduciaries meet their obligations to locate and distribute retirement benefits to missing or nonresponsive participants.
To inform the staff of the Office of Apprenticeship (OA), State Apprenticeship Agencies (SAA), and Registered Apprenticeship program sponsors and potential sponsors about OA’s policy and process for reviewing requests from program sponsors in federally-administered States to establish or revise their ratio of apprentices to journeyworkers pursuant to the applicable regulatory provision governing such ratios at Title 29 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), section 29.5(b)(7). This circular is intended to articulate the methodology for OA’s process to consider ratio requests in federally-administered States. The guidance will enable OA to ensure a consistent approach in making determinations on ratio requests from program sponsors and employers.
The 2015 Inflation Adjustment Act requires OSHA to adjust the level of civil monetary penalties annually for inflation (based on the Consumer Price Index) by January 15 of each year.
Whether the ministerial exception allows a private religious daycare and preschool to pay its teachers on a salary basis that would not otherwise conform with the requirements of the FLSA.
Addressing whether account managers at a life science products manufacturer qualify for the administrative employee exemption under the FLSA,
This guidance offers best practices for mall and shopping center operators to prevent transmission of COVID-19 among workers and customers.
Whether certain travel time occurring on a telework day is compensable under the FLSA
Whether certain overtime payments based on an expected number of hours worked may be credited towards the amount of overtime pay owed under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and whether such overtime payments are excludable from the regular rate.
When WHD considers telemedicine an "in-person" visit for the purposes of establishing a serious health condition qualifying for protection under the Family and Medical Leave Act.
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