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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.
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This letter advised that, under section 7(p)(2) of the FLSA, support service employees employed at a public school such as building service workers, secretaries, food service workers, and carpenters would be considered to be employed in a different capacity when performing extracurricular activities such as coaching sports or cheerleaders, sponsoring educational clubs or drama presentations by students, and similar activities. However, the letter cautioned that such extracurricular work must be intermittent and irregular, noting that a custodian who also works as an assistant coach during the football or other sports season would not be employed on an occasional or sporadic basis as discussed above. Where a support services employee, in addition to his or her regular job, also works part-time on a daily or nearly daily basis doing extracurricular work with students, such hours must be combined with hours worked in the primary job for the purpose of computing proper overtime compensation due under FLSA.
Determination of whether providing certain proposed benefits would be consistent with the types of reasonable benefits permissible under 553.106 for volunteers.
To compute the regular rate for overtime when a salary is paid for a variable workweek of less than 40 hours, apply 778.323 rather than 778.113(a).
DOL advises agencies that the revised H&W levels were $.59 and $1.84
Provides instructions pertinent to the reporting requirements under 30 CFR Part 50.
Interpretation given in the Federal Register on December 20, 1985 describing mild petroleum hydrotreatment is appropriate. - [1910.1200]
Method for computinng the regular rate of pay for firefighters working overtime during a 207(k) work period.e
Evaluation of plan to retrofit fork lift equipment with an operator safety restraint system. - [1910.178(a)(4)]
Requirements for target organ effects on labels under the Hazard Communication standard. - [1910.1200]
Mutiple jobs with same employer for different pay and travel time, travel all in a days work, and recordkeeping.
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