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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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.
- For more general results, remove quotation marks to search for each word individually. For example, minimum wage will return all documents that have either the word minimum or the word wage in the description, while “minimum wage” will limit results to those containing that phrase.
Respiratory protection requirements for sour crude oil tank operations. - [1910.134]
MSDS distribution requirements for chemical manufacturers and importers, distributors and retail distributors. - [1910.1200(g)]
No. 9 wire is not adequate to support large walls, columns or piers. - [1926.703]
Whether the proposed Stouffer Hotel Management Corporation Vacation Pay Plan for certain Hourly Employees is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of title I of ERISA.
Clarification on respirator use relating to the benzene standard. - [1910.1028]
Whether any of the transactions as described that occur subsequent to the formation of the partnership would constitute an “acquisition” of an equity interest within the meaning of regulation section 2510.3-101(f)(1) and would trigger a determination of significant equity participation by benefit plan investors.
Applicability of the HCS to office workers and copy machine operators. - [1910.1200]
Whether the fiduciary responsibility provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) would apply to proposed investments by employee benefit plans in Energy Investors Fund (EIF), a limited partnership or would the plan’s assets include only the limited partnership interest in EIF but not any of the underlying assets of the partnership.
Whether a purchase of stock by an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) from a corporation would violate section 4975(c)(1)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
Whether the denial of a claim for an in-service hardship distribution under the terms of the First Citizens Bank & Trust Company Accumulation Plan be subject to the claims procedures requirements of section 503 of ERISA.
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