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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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The Gleneagle spectacle with 2-mm thick polycarbonate plano lenses complies with ANSI Z87.1-1968. - [1910.133(b)(2)]
Citing 29 CFR 1926.20 and 21 for contractors or subcontractors that do not have Federal contributions - [1926.20; 1926.21]
Where an employee who is on-call is free to come and go as he or she pleases, and is also free to engage in personal activities duing periods of idleness, such time is not hours worked. However, if calls are so freqent or the on-call conditions so restrictive that the employee cannot effectively use on-call time for his or her own purposes, the on-call wating time would be counted as hours worked.
Whether at the time of certain loans by Alaska Teamster-Employer Pension Trust (PT) to WT in 1977 and 1978, was WT an employee organization with members covered by PT and therefore a party in interest with respect to PT under section 3(14)(D) of ERISA, and whether at the time of said loans, was WT a contributing employer with respect to PT and therefore a party in interest under section 3(14)(C) of ERISA.
Whether the Audiotronics Profit Sharing Plan (the Plan) is no longer required to engage, pursuant to section 103(a)(3)(A) of ERISA, an independent qualified public accountant to make an examination and report with respect to the financial statements of the Plan.
Some employers have banned portable stereo headsets. - [1910.95]
The letter analyzes whether a training program for disabled seasonal farmworkers is in compliance with section 14c. The letter provides a six part test for whether traineees are considered employees.
Whether a foreign subsidiary of Dibrell would be considered an "affiliate" within the meaning of section 407(d)(7) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
Whether the Structural Ironworkers Local No. 1 Annuity Fund (the Annuity Fund) and the Structural Ironworkers Local No. 1 Pension Fund (the Pension Fund) are employee benefit plans under section 3(3) and thereby covered by title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
Requirements for mesh size on protective canopies for mobile equipment. - [1926.604]
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