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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Whether certain extensions of credit in connection with securities transactions involving PaineWebber, Inc. and employee benefit plans covered by Title I of ERISA, and H.R. 10 plans and individual retirement accounts which are not covered by Title I or ERISA meet the conditions of the exemption contained in of Part V of Prohibited Transaction Exemption 75-1 (40 FR 50845, October 31, 1975) (PTE 75-1).
Application of the Hazard Communication Standard to lift trucks. - [1910.1200]
Information Letter to John N. Erlenborn.
In your capacity as chairman of the Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans, you have requested an opinion of the Department of Labor regarding the interplay between the fiduciary responsibility provisions of ERISA and pension plan terminations.
Hazard evaluation requirements under the Hazard Communication standard. - [1910.1200]
MSDS and labeling requirements for copper or aluminum wire or metal products. - [1910.1200]
Definitions of "massive release", "equipment failure", and "emergency" under the vinyl chloride standard. - [1910.1017]
Classifying self-elevating lift boats and enforcement responsibility. - [1975.1]
Classification of foundry products such as castings in relation to the HCS. - [1910.1200]
Whether certain real estate transactions by the United Systems Employee Retirement Plan (the “Plan) or the Real Estate Fund (the “Fund”) of NCNB National Bank of North Carolina do not constitute prohibited transactions under section 406 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), whether certain entities are parties-in-interest, as defined in section 3(14) of ERISA, of the Plan or the Fund, and whether and that Mr. Robert L. Jones is a fiduciary within the meaning of section 3(21)(A) of ERISA.
CPL 02-03-001 [DIS .7] - National - Referral of Section 11(c) Discrimination Complaints to "State Plan" States - 02/27/1986
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