Virginia Labor Guidance
Free plain-English summaries of opinion letters, administrative policies, and interpretive notices from Virginia's labor agency, with the current status and the official source on every page.
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Virginia Minimum Wage Act
This Field Operations Manual chapter — DOLI's oldest and most-revised FOM chapter (last revised July 2019) — explains Virginia's Minimum Wage Act, which applies only to private employers with 4+ emplo…
Right-to-Work Law
This Field Operations Manual chapter explains Virginia's Right-to-Work Law (Code of Virginia §§ 40.1-58 to -69), which bars closed-shop and union-shop agreements: no one can be required to join, or pa…
Use of Polygraphs in Certain Employment Situations
This Field Operations Manual chapter covers Virginia's law banning most polygraph ("lie detector") tests of law-enforcement employees, with a narrow exception: an agency's chief executive can require …
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These are official interpretive documents from Virginia's labor agency: opinion letters answering questions from employers and workers, administrative policies, and interpretive notices. They show how the agency applies wage-and-hour and workplace law to real situations, but they are guidance, not statutes or court decisions, and the agency can supersede or withdraw them. Every page above shows the document's current status, when that status was last verified, and a link to the official source.