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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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FAB 2016-5 discusses the guidelines the Wage and Hour Division (WHD) follows to determine when an assessment of child labor civil money penalties under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. 201 et seq. , is appropriate, as well as the amounts of the penalties WHD will assess.
Resource guide for employers, apprenticeship sponsors, educators, workforce professionals, intermediaries and community-based organizations on how to use Federal workforce and education funds to support Registered Apprenticeship.
FAQs on resources for anti-harassment
FAQs on Apprenticeship programs
How to find opportunities in apprenticeship
How an employer can start an apprenticeship program
The fact sheet provides an overview of the final rule amending the Department’s claims procedure regulation for disability benefits to require that plans, plan fiduciaries and insurance providers comply with additional procedural protections when dealing with disability benefit claimants.
Guidance regarding WHD's enforcement of certain tip credit provisions in Field Operations Handbook sections 30d and 32j18. Incorporated the 1996 statutory amendments to section 3(m) of the FLSA and the 2011 revisions to the tip credit regulations, as well as provide guidance on an employer's ability to utilize a tip credit in states that have minimum wages in excess of the FLSA minimum wage and permit tip credits in excess of the FLSA 3(m) tip credit.
Describes OSHA efforts on OSH and Sustainability, including white paper, social media, and organizational spotlights.
Report describing OSHA's understanding of sustainability and potential actions that could advance OSH within sustainability discussions.
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