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.
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Electrical Standards for Construction, Revised Subpart K - [1926 Subpart K]
This letter advises that, notwithstanding the inaccessibility of the location and the fact that an employee cannot leave, time spent sleeping by youth specialist employees on an overnight camping "treck" may be properly excluded from the employees' hours worked under FLSA. However, the letter cautions that if interruptions to sleep are so frequent that the employee cannot get at least 5 hours of sleep during the scheduled sleeping period the entire period must be counted as hours worked.
This letter advises that drivers who transport goods within a single State from a storage terminal of commodities may qualify for the overtime pay exemption contained in section 13(b )(1) of FLSA, as long as the transported goods originated from out-of-state and the shipper had a fixed and persisting transportation intent beyond the terminal storage point at the time of the original out-of-state shipment.
Use of amyl nitrite pearls as an antidote for acrylonitrile poisoning. - [1910.1045]
OSHA has no standards for the design and implementation of video display workstations.
Information on Hydro Carbide Tungsten, otherwise known as cemented tungsten carbide with colbalt binder. - [1910.120]
CPL 02-00-078 [CPL 2.78] - National - Regional Ergonomics Program - 02/09/1987
This letter advises that the FLSA's overtime pay requirement depends on all of the hours worked in a particular workweek rather than to hours which have been averaged with hours worked in another workweek or which have been redistributed in another workweek. The letter notes that, even though employees allegedly support such an arrangement, neither an employer nor an employee has the authority to waive the FLSA's overtime pay requirement.
Interpretation on requirements for opening drums in a safe manner. - [1910.120(j)]
This letter advises that the described zoning inspector is not excluded from FLSA coverage under section 3(e)(2)(C) of the Act because the inspector is not appointed to serve on a policymaking level and is not an immediate or personal adviser to an elected official. The letter separately advises that the zoning inspector does not qualify as an exempt administrative employee under section 13(a)(1) because job duties such as investigating violations of the zoning code, reviewing applications for zoning or sign permits, and issuing permits do not require the requisite degree of discretion or independent judgment.
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