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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Information on the health hazard of ozone produced by common office copiers and on radon gas testing devices. - [1910.1000]
Lead standard: multiple physician review and medical removal. - [1910.1025(j)(3)(iii); 1910.1025(k)(1)(ii); 1910.1025(k)(2)]
Posting of the Occupational Noise Exposure Standard. - [1910.95(l)(1)]
Whether the transactions of certain “sweep services” provided by Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company to employee benefit plans, for which the Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company acts as custodian or directed trustee, would qualify for the statutory exemptions provided by sections 408(b)(2) and/or 408(b)(6) of ERISA.
Law clerks are not employees when participating in law clerk extern program if stated tests are met.
Employee contributions to "cafeteria" style benefit plans and wage payment under FLSA section 3(m).
Application of FLSA section 13(a)(1) to engineering technicians.
Application of FLSA section 13(b)(1) to truck drivers opertating intrastate but transporting goods that may be moving interstate.
Standards applicable to Epon 826, 827, and Epon Curing Agent Z. - [1910.1000 TABLE Z-1; 1910.1000 TABLE Z-2; 1910.1000 TABLE Z-3]
Whether the Rosenberg Bank and Trust Group Life and Health Insurance Plan, providing medical benefits for the Rosenberg Bank and Trust employees and employees of certain of its subsidiaries under an insurance policy issued and underwritten by the Travelers Insurance Company constitutes an "employee welfare benefit plan", as defined in ERISA section 3(1), for purposes of title I of ERISA.
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