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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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This poster provides steps employers can take to reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus at meat, poultry, and pork processing and packaging facilities in Karen.
This poster provides steps employers can take to reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus at meat, poultry, and pork processing and packaging facilities in Laotian.
This poster provides steps employers can take to reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus at fish and seafood processing and packaging facilities in Polish.
Cleanup of blood from crime or accident scenes and HAZWOPER training requirements - [1910.120; 1910.120(a)(3); 1910.120(e)(3); 1910.120(e)(4); 1910.120(q)(6); 1910.120(q)(11); 1910.1030]
PURPOSE: To inform the staff of OA and the State Apprenticeship Agencies (SAA), Registered Apprenticeship program sponsors, Registered Apprenticeship partners, and other interested parties of OA’s decision to rescind, in accordance with the mandate contained in Executive Order 13891, previously-issued guidance documents in the form of bulletins that OA has determined are no longer valid, are outdated, or do not serve an appropriate or useful purpose.
PURPOSE: To provide guidance to the staff of Registration Agencies (i.e., OA and State Apprenticeship Agencies (SAAs)), Registered Apprenticeship program sponsors, Registered Apprenticeship partners, and other interested parties on the applicability of the Support for Veterans in Effective Apprenticeships Act of 2019 (Public Law 116-134, 134 Stat. 277) to SAAs, and on possible approaches for implementation of the Act’s requirements by SAAs.
PURPOSE: To inform the staff of OA and the State Apprenticeship Agencies (SAAs), Registered Apprenticeship program sponsors, Registered Apprenticeship partners, providers of related instruction (RI), and other interested parties with specific guidance and strategies for implementing the requirements of Section 2(b)(2) of Public Law 116-134 that pertain to the provision of progressive wages and the granting of advanced standing and credit to veterans or other eligible individuals by Registered Apprenticeship program sponsors.
This Field Assistance Bulletin ("FAB") outlines the Wage and Hour Division's ("WHD") temporary enforcement position regarding the application of section 13(a)(3) of the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") to existing amusement or recreational establishments, organized camps, or religious or non-profit educational conference centers that modified, replaced, canceled, or reduced normal operations in 2020 in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Where the conditions outlined below exist, WHD shall not bring enforcement actions for violations of the minimum wage or overtime requirements of the FLSA against such establishments, even if the operations or programming of such establishments offered in 2020 might not satisfy the Department’s regulations under section 13(a)(3).
Provides guidance that by statute, all Federal Black Lung benefits, whether Part B or Part C, are not taxable income.
Provides guidance to claimants on the selection of an examining physician related to thier claim for benefits
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