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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Whether the certified scuba instructor is exempt as a teacher under section 13(a)(1) of the FLSA.
Significance of ANSI standards with respect to OSHA requirements, specifically A92.6-1999. - [1926.453; 1910.1; 1910.6]
OSHA coverage does not extend to home-based care for the elderly. - [1975.6]
Requirements for scaffold grade lumber; qualifications of qualified/competent persons for grading scaffold lumber. - [1926.451(b); 1926.452(e); 1926.452(p)(4); 1926.450(b); 1926 Subpart L App A]
Whether an employer may deduct the cost of uniforms from an employee’s wages in a week in which that employee works more than 40 hours, if the employer pays the employee overtime compensation computed at 1 ½ times the regular rate (before deductions are taken out) and if the deduction does not reduce the regular rate below the minimum wage required by the FLSA.
Information Letter to Theodore R. Groom.
Guidance regarding the alternatives available under the trust requirement of Title I of ERISA with respect to receipt by policyholders of demutualization proceeds belonging to an ERISA covered plan in connection with The Prudential Insurance Company of America’s proposed plan of demutualization.
Application of the definition of a "fiduciary" in certain circumstances relating to the allocation of demutualization proceeds. See also Information Letter to Theodore R. Groom dated 02/15/01.
Whether certain individual retirement annuities and tax deferred annuities that are otherwise exempt from coverage under Title I of ERISA by virtue of DOL regulations at 29 CFR 2510.3-2(d) and (f) would remain exempt if the employer as the contract holder (1) votes on the proposed plan of demutualization and (2) selects an allocation method for distributing the demutualization proceeds among the employees covered under the group contract. See also Information Letter to Theodore R. Groom dated 02/15/01.
Whether a particular 401(k) pension plan is a “bona fide thrift or savings plan” for the purpose of section 7(e)(3)(b) of the FLSA.
Whether a practice or policy of forwarding unpaid commissions on an indefinite basis would violate the FLSA for those sales employees entitled to the exemption under section 13(b)(10) of the Act, as long as the employees actually receive not less than the statutory minimum wage for all hours worked in each work week.
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