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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Provides responses to a number of questions under MSPA which are largely addressed in the regulations - Provides context for what we consider compliant and noncompliant for specific records
Questions and answers relative to the noise standard. - [1910.95]
Whether the Mechanics' Lien Laws of the State of California and their related provisions are preempted by section 514 of title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) insofar as the California laws permit employee benefit plans covered by ERISA title I to foreclose on real property works of improvement to recover contributions owed those plans by contributing employers for work performed on the real property.
Discusses minimum age requirement for FLC certificate as well as emancipated minors - only place we currently state this position
Bonus paid to employees based on a percentage of total monthly earnings, including overtime, when certain sales goals of a store are met or exceeded. Section 778.210
Whether a retiree working full-time as a maintenance refractory bricklayer for the Ford Motor Company’s Rouge River steel facility (Ford), which does not maintain the Bricklayers Pension Trust Fund-Metropolitan Area (the Plan), and who prior to his employment by Ford worked for subcontractors performing bricklaying work at Ford, accruing benefits under the Plan, has been working in the same “industry” as that term is used in the within the meaning of section 203(a)(3)(B)(ii) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Department of Labor’s suspension of benefits regulation (29 CFR §2530.203-3(c)(2)).
Service employees in certain self-development training courses similar to "Introduction to Supervision" and should also be considered under section 785.27.
Whether a proposed contribution or sale of certain real property to the Profit Sharing Trust for Employees of E-Z Serve, Inc. (the Plan) and simultaneous leaseback of the property to the E-Z Serve, Inc. (the Company) will be exempt from the prohibitions of sections 406 and 407 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) by the exemption contained in section 408(e) of ERISA for the acquisition, sale or lease of qualifying employer real property, and whether the land the Company proposes to contribute is qualifying employer real property under section 407(d)(4) of ERISA.
Whether the loss or destruction of records that must be retained under section 107 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) before the end of the six-year retention period prescribed by section 107 discharges persons required to retain the records from their statutory duty to do so.
Interpretation of 1910.179, Overhead and Gantry Cranes - [1910.179]
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