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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Organic lead soap containing lead naphthenate is regulated under the lead standard. - [1910.1025]
Sets forth the Department's policy on retroactive prohibited transaction exemptions and its related views on evidence of "good faith" actions taken to adequately safeguard the interests of plans and their participants and beneficiaries.
Federal employees' rights and reprisal protection in relation to filing safety and health complaints. - [1960]
Professional exemption for Medical Sonographer
OSHA/NRC Interface Activities and Related Information - [1910.1096]
Whether the arrangement by the Wisconsin Education Association Insurance Trust (WEA Insurance Trust) to provide group health benefits to the employees of the Sioux City Community School District of Sioux City, Iowa (the School District) is established or maintained by an employees' beneficiary association within the meaning of section 3(4) of ERISA and whether the insurance laws of the State of Iowa are preempted by section 514(a) of title I of ERISA.
Whether the arrangement between the Sioux City Community School District of Sioux City, Iowa, and the Wisconsin Education Association Insurance Trust (WEA Insurance Trust) the WEA Insurance Trust program of benefits for employees of school districts is not established and is not maintained by an employee organization within the meaning of section 3(4) of title I of ERISA with respect to those employees. This opinion revokes Opinion 83-36A (issued July 5, 1983) regarding the status of the WEA Insurance Trust under title I of ERISA.
Whether entities that are recipients of “church plan” letters from IRS constitute one or more church plans within the meaning of section 3(33) of title I of ERISA.
Requirements for fire brigade instructors.; Requirements for fire brigade instructors. - [1910.156; 1910.157]
Use of an electronic back-up mirror used with a with a reverse audible alarm. - [1926.602(a)(9)]
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