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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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
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Washington, DC 20210
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This letter examines whether an employer may deduct from the salaries of exempt employees or require them to reimburse the company for damage to or loss of company equipment without jeopardizing the employees' exempt status under section 13(a)(1).
This letter provides guidance on employee stock purchase plan and regular rate.
This letter provides guidance on the application of section 7(i) of the FLSA.
Requirement for flame-resistant clothing in petrochemical plant covered by PSM. - [1910.132; 1910.132(a); 1910.119; 1910.119(f)(1)(iii)(B); 1910.119(h)(2); 1910.119(h)(3); 1910.119(j)(2)]
This letter provides guidance on voluntary activities counting as working time.
Information Letter to Honorable Mike Kreidler.
Whether a professional employer organization (PEO) and its client companies would be deemed a single employer for purposes of ERISA section 3(40) by reason of the PEO obtaining options to purchase an 80% interest in each client company.
Provides guidance on terms and safety standards for the vehicle safety obligations found in the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (MSPA).
PTE 92-6 covers the sale, by an employee benefit plan, of a second to die life-insurance policy to two participants who are husband and wife and who are the insured under the policy. The letter also clarifies that the conditions of PTE 92-6 remain the same despite the amendments to the Internal Revenue Code regarding the tax treatment of certain life-insurance policies distributed from employee benefit plans.
Access to toilet facilities in a call center. - [1910.141; 1910.141(c)(1)(i)]
Fall protection and aerial lifts in the Electric Power Generation, Transmission, and Distribution industries. - [1910.28; 1910.28(a)(12); 1910.28(d)(7); 1910.28(d)(12); 1910.29; 1910.29(a)(3); 1910.67; 1910.269; 1910.269(a)(2)]
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