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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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DOL advises agencies of the Department's procedures concerning CWHSSA violation cases on SCA contracts
Whether the Department of Labor will update its Advisory Opinion 82-50A, which held that the Realtors Group Insurance Trust (Trust) was not an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), to confirm that REGIT, a non-stock corporation assuming the obligations of the Trust, is not an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of title I of ERISA.
Whether PTE 79-60 permits Glen-Wahlberg & Co. and the Sistrunk Insurance Agency, subsidiaries of Wetterau, Inc whose employees participate in the Wetterau, Inc. Group Insurance Plan (the Plan) to sell insurance to the Plan and to receive commissions thereon, if the conditions of the class exemption are met.
Interpretation on preservation of employee x-ray films. - [1910.1020]
Whether the Florida Health Care Association Group Trust (the Trust) is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of title I of the of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
Whether the option prices contained in a 1966 amendment to a lease of property owned by the Profit-Sharing Plan for Employees of Southwestern Drug Corporation and Southwestern Drug Corporation may be considered in determining the fair market value of the Property under section 414(c)(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and Labor Department regulation 29 CFR 2550.414c-3(b)(3).
Whether certain equity interests in real properties acquired in 1982 by John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company (the Company) for both its general account and a separate account (holding assets of the Employee’s Retirement and Benefit Plan of Schenley Industries, Inc. for which the Company is a fiduciary) are “held pursuant to a binding contract in effect on July 1, 1974” under 414(c)(2) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) because the interests were acquired in a foreclosure auction that resulted from defaults on pre-1974 mortgages.
Material handling operations in longshoring operations. - [1926.605]
Acceptance of certain threaded bushings on type 11 grinding wheels as being safety guards. - [1910.243(c)]
Whether two individual retirement programs to be implemented by Armco, Inc. and its affiliates constitute employee pension benefit plans within the meaning of section 3(2) of title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
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