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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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
200 Constitution Ave NW
Washington, DC 20210
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- If you are searching using an acronym, try a second search with the acronym spelled out. For example, if you are searching for guidance related to the Davis-Bacon Act, try searching "Davis-Bacon Act" as well as "DBA".
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Interpretation on refusal to work rights. - [1977]
Interpretation on requirements for insulating rubber gloves in telecommunications work. - [1910.268(n)(1)(i)]
Clarification of the applicable standards for a body belt and lanyard used by an employee working from the bucket of aerial boom trucks. - [1926.959]
Reasonable judgment is needed in evaluating the proximity of required sanitary facilities. - [1910.141(c)]
Whether the Wisconsin Association Insurance Trust is an employee welfare benefit plan covered by title I of ERISA.
Use of an emergency jog reverse control during mill rescue operations. - [1910.216(e)]
OSHA requirement for guarding power take-off (PTO) shafts on agricultural equipment. - [1928.57]
Employer offering an unpaid pre-shop program to handicapped workers in a sheltered workshop. The Department considers time spent in rehabilitation services not to be hours worked provided the services are not primarily for the purpose of increasing such worker's productivity on the job.
Hotel employees time spent changing into work clothes is not considered compensable, since the clothes are considered to be furnished for the convenience of the employee. As indicated in section 785.25
Employees engaged in the interstate transportation of motor homes. Receive funds for reimbursement of expenses incurred on behalf of the employer and which are in excess of those expenses actually incurred are wages.
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