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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Interpretation on the application of 1910.1020 to material safety data sheets. - [1910.1020]
Marking recognition, regulations and policy of double insulated power tools. - [1926.302(a); 1926.404(b)(1)(i)]
Whether, and to what extent, the Trust constituted an “employee welfare benefit plan” within the meaning of ERISA section 3(1) subject to the fiduciary and other provisions of title I of ERISA.
Procedures for ethylene oxide (EtO) spills and ethylene oxide disposal. - [1910.1047]
Whether the Ettelbrick Shoe Company pension plan constitutes an unfunded plan maintained “primarily for the purpose of providing deferred compensation for a select group of management or highly compensated employees” within the meaning of sections 201(2), 301(a)(3), and 401(a)(1) of title I of ERISA.
Whether a prohibited transaction under section 406 of ERISA would occur if the trustees of the Fund made an investment which was part of an overall agreement obligating an insurance company to invest a specified amount of insurance company assets in construction mortgages within the geographic jurisdiction of the union whose members are participants in the Fund.
The Willson SPECTRA eye protective device complies with ANSI Z87.1- 1968. - [1910.133(b)(2)]
Whether the Retirement Plan for Employees of Holy Redeemer Hospital (the Retirement Plan) and the Holy Redeemer Hospital Thrift Plan (the Thrift Plan) would not qualify as church plans within the meaning of ERISA section 3(33), as amended by the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980, would be exempt from coverage under title I of ERISA pursuant to section 4(b)(2) of ERISA.
Discusses whether a convent is a private home under the FLSA and if 13(a)(15) exemption applies to the domestic service workers in the convent
Noise standards applicable to Metra are under the jurisdiction of the Federal Railroad Administration. - [1975.1; 1910.95]
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