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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Laboratory-based noise reduction defined. - [1910.95]
Conformance of the Blue Line PFR/Power Failure Release Option with applicable OSHA standards. - [1910.213]
Security officer license expense incurred by employees. Four-hour program which deals with the specific performance expected of security guards under section 785.7.
Medical surveillance is not required for terminated employees. - [1910.1029(j)]
Employees exposed to crane or derrick. - [1917.45]
Whether the Concept Systems, Inc. Growth Share Plan (the Plan), which provides annual payments to participating employees during employment, after a compensation deferral for a maximum of 3 years, is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) or an employee pension benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(2) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
Whether the Donnelly Mirrors, Inc. Participant Benefit Plan may benefit from the limited exception at 29 CFR §2520.104-44, to the reporting requirements of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), including the requirement under ERISA section 103(a)(3)(A) that an independent qualified public accountant must conduct an examination and certify any financial statements the Plan may have.
Whether the Keep Well Trust for Employer Aided Benefits is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
A film can meet training requirements if questions are answered. - [1910.95(k)]
Whether transactions meant to separate two employee stock ownership plans originally created for employees of Time Incorporated (Time) by providing that each plan would have investment committees without members in common, would not provide services to each other, and would not own the same non-employer securities, were prohibited transactions under either Section 406(a) or 406(b)(1) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) whether after the transactions, the plans would be parties in interest with respect to each other under ERISA section 3(14).
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