09/ 04/ 2004
The mission of the United State Department of Labor is to foster and promote the welfare of U.S. job seekers, wage earners and retirees by improving working conditions, advancing their opportunities for profitable employment, protecting retirement and health-care benefits, helping employers find workers, and strengthening free collective bargaining.
NFIB and DOL formed a partnership to help assist NFIB's 600,000 members with the employment laws affecting their businesses. This partnership was formed under DOL’s Partnerships for Compliance Assistance Program. This program was formed to help DOL educate business owners and their employees about finding and using compliance assistance tools so they can meet the requirements of federal employment laws that DOL administers. As part of this partnership, NFIB is providing links and articles to help small businesses understand federal employment laws.
Contact information:
U.S. Department of Labor
Frances Perkins Building
200 Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20210
(866) 4-USA-DOL
TTY: (877) 889-5627
Regulatory Compliance Telephone Contacts:
(866) 4-USA-DOL – Employment Law Guide: Describes DOL's laws and regulations in easy-to-understand language. Copies also available in print.
(888) 9-SBREFA – Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act: More than 300 publications of DOL small-business compliance assistance available by calling this number
DOL’s confidentiality statement: The information provided by an inquirer will be kept confidential within the bounds of the law. For the limited purpose of responding to the inquiry it may be necessary to obtain some identifying information such as the inquirer’s name, business name, business address, and/or telephone number. DOL agency staff handling and responding to compliance assistance inquiries are required to maintain the confidentiality of any caller’s identifying information. Compliance assistance inquiries shall not trigger an inspection, audit, investigation, etc. However, such inquiries will not protect a party from an inspection, audit, investigation, etc. that is the result of ordinary agency operations.
DOL Links
