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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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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.
This letter advised how to calculate overtime pay for salaried firefighters working a 27-day work period designated under section 7(k) of the Act. The letter assumed that the annual salaries paid for firefighters constituted straight-time pay for a fixed, or scheduled number of hours in each work period, and not fixed salaries for fluctuating hours.
Obstructed view to the rear relative to use of back-up alarms. - [1926.602(a)(9)(ii)]
Clarification of the terms "appropriate hazard warning" and "mandatory". - [1910.1200(f); 1910.1200(d)(2)]
Plans are required for EtO emergency situations and must be written in accordance with 1910.38 and 1910.39. - [1910.1047; 1910.1047(h)(1); 1910.1047(h)(1)(iii); 1910.38; 1910.165]
Line maintenance on a de-energized transmission line. - [1926.551; 1926.950(c)]
Clarification of the jurisdiction's of OSHA and the NRC in nuclear power plants. - [1910.1096]
Means of alerting employees during EtO emergency situations in hospitals;direct voice communication may be used to warn employees during an EtO emergency. - [1910.1047; 1910.1047(h)(2); 1910.165; 1910.38; 1910.39]
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