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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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.
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Computing and overtime premium when a cost of living adjustment is paid
Service charge for percent of services redered given to employee may qualify as a commission under FLSA section 7(i).
Time spent by firefighters on standby or oncall carrying a paging device, among other conditions, was not hours worked or compensable.
Whether a plan trustee of the A.F. of L. - A.G.C. Building Trades Pension and Welfare Plans, who is a full-time employee of an employer that no longer makes contributions to the Plans on behalf of its employees, may receive compensation from the Plans for services performed as trustee.
Whether the money purchase plan of the Lee County Public Schools is a governmental plan within the meaning of section 3(32) of title I of ERISA and is therefore excluded from coverage under that title by section 4(b)(1) of ERISA.
Interpretation concerning 1910.120 requirements for air monitoring, a site safety and health plan, training, and medical surveillance. - [1910.120; 1910.120(h); 1910.120(b)(1)(v); 1910.120(c)(7); 1910.120(b)(1)(iv); 1910.120(e)(1); 1910.120(e)(3); 1910.10
Exemption of hazardous waste samples sent to a laboratory for analysis from the Hazard Communication Standard. - [1910.1200]
Whether a bank in the SunTrust system would not violate section 406(b) of ERISA by investing the assets of employee benefit plans for which SunTrust Banks, Inc. is a fiduciary in a common trust fund maintained by such bank or any other bank in the SunTrust system.
OSHA's final standard for occupational exposure to benzene. - [1910.1028]
Whether the Dependent Care Assistance Plan of Tropical Plant Rentals, Inc. constitutes an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of ERISA.
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