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.
OMB’s Final Bulletin for Agency Good Guidance Practices establishes policies and procedures for the development, issuance, and use of significant guidance documents by Executive Branch departments, including requiring that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor. Petitions should identify the specific guidance document by name and include your reason(s) for the request.
On January 20, 2021, President Biden issued the “Executive Order on Revocation of Certain Executive Orders Concerning Federal Regulation.” In response, the Department issued a final rule January 27, 2021 to rescind its August 28, 2020 rule on guidance documents.
Search Tips
- 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".
- For more specific results, use quotation marks around phrases.
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Clarification of 29 CFR 1910.1047(h)(2) Requirements for Emergency EtO Limit - [1910.1047]
The use of flammable and combustible liquids in dip tanks. - [1910.106; 1910.123; 1910.124; 1910.125; 1910.126]
Whether the Washington Convention Center Employees' Retirement Plan (the "Plan") is a "governmental plan" within the meaning of section 3(32) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA"), and whether the Plan is excluded from ERISA title I coverage by reason of section 4(b)(l) of ERISA.
Whether the Missouri Pacific Employees' Health Association (MPEHA) is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of title I of ERISA.
Training requirements in 29 CFR 1910.120 concerning hazardous waste cleanup operations. - [1910.120; 1910.120(e)]
Drivers of school buses owned and operated by school districts do not qualify for the 13(b)(1) exemption and are entitled to overtime compensation as provided by the FLSA.
Whether Plan No. 506, Employee Accident and Sickness Program (Plan 506), which Blue Cross/Blue Shield of West Virginia (Blue Cross) offers to employees whose employers will make it available through payroll deductions, is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of title I of ERISA.
Interpretation of OSHA's Fire Brigade Standard concerning the use of SCBAs by incipient stage fire brigade members - [1910.155(c)(26); 1910.156]
Whether the Affiliated Food Stores, Inc. Group Benefit Trust (the Trust) is a multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) within the meaning of section 3(40) of title I of ERISA, and whether the Trust is subject to state regulation at least to the extent provided in section 514(b)(6)(A), regardless of whether it is an employee benefit plan covered by title I of ERISA, because it is a MEWA within the meaning of section 3(40) of that title.
Whether (a) the proposed Flat Top Coal Benefits Trust (the Trust), if established, will be an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of title I of ERISA, (b) the Trust will be a multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) within the meaning of section 3(40) of title I of ERISA, (c) any ERISA obligations will be applicable to the Trust; and (d) any ERISA obligations will apply to either the Flat Top Insurance Agency (the Agency) or the Flat Top National Bank of Bluefield (the Bank).
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