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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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
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Employees engaged in erection, may ride a material hoist to gain access or egress to their work during the erection. - [1926.552]
Use of eyeglass inserts or spectacle kits inside respirator full facepieces. - [1910.134]
This letter advised that participants in a rehabilitation work program may be employees individually covered by the FLSA. Moreover, the letter advised that any public financing in support of "board, lodging, and facilities" furnished to program participants must be subtracted from the cost of providing such facilities where the empoyer claims a credit towards its minimum wage obligation under section 3(m) of the Act.
Information regarding exposure to lead and sulfuric acid. - [1910.1025]
Acceptance of closed-circuit self-contained breathing apparatus for firefighting. - [1910.134]
Protection provided by powered air-purifying respirators. - [1910.134(g)(1)(i); 1910.134(g)(1)(ii); 1910.134(g)(1)(iii)]
Calculating of hearing threshold shifts. - [1910.95]
Applicability of 1910.180(b)(1) to cranes used with drag line, pile driver or clam shell attachments. - [1910.180(b)(1)]
This letter advises that "per diem" payments intended as reimbursement for actual or reasonably approximate transportation and living expenses incurred by an employee while traveling on behalf of the employer may be excluded from the employee's regular rate of pay. However, the letter cautions that any payments to an employee which are disproportionately large or which obviously exceed the employee's actual (or reasonably approximate) expenses must be included in the employee's regular rate of pay.
This letter advises that time spent by employees visiting their private physician outside of normal working hours would not be considered compensable hours of work even if they are instructed to do so by their employer as a condition for return to work after an absence due to illness.
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