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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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March 1, 1984 is the deadline for baseline audiograms - [1910.95(c)]
Transfer of nonflammable and noncombustible liquids via air pressure. - [1910.106(e)(2)(iv)(d); 1910.106(a)(18)(ii)(b)]
Whether an amendment to the Marine Midland Thrift Incentive Plan (the Plan) that would permit a participant to direct the Trustee of the Plan (Marine Midland, which serves without compensation ) to invest all or a portion of the participant's interest in the Plan in one or more of the three investment portfolios maintained by Mariner Institutional Funds, Inc. (Mariner), and several other changes in the management of the plan would be prohibited transactions under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and if so, whether Prohibited Transactions Exemption 77-3 would apply, especially with respect to the acquisition or sale of shares of Mariners Funds by Marine Midland, as Trustee of the plan.
Costs of employee training under the noise standard paid by employer. - [1910.95(k)]
Whether the retirement plan (the Plan) sponsored by Searle & Co. can exclude from its annual return/report (Form 5500) the report of an independent qualified public accountant, which is generally required by Section 103(a)(3)(B), of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 but also may be limited by regulation 29 CFR 2520.103-8, because all of the Plan’s assets are held by a bank authorized by the Department of Treasury to perform as trustee, is subject to periodic audit and examination by both the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and Federal agencies, and the return is accompanied by an actuarial report detailing the Plan’s general situation produced and certified annually by an enrolled actuary.
Workers cannot sign a release so they can wear a respirator with a beard. - [1910.134(g)(1)(i)]
Whether the A.I. McDermott Co., Inc. Health and Welfare Trust (the Trust), a welfare benefit plan with fewer than 100 participants, qualifies for the limited exemption to the reporting and disclosure requirements of title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 for certain small welfare plans prescribed in 29 C.F.R. §2520.104-20.
Whether section 514 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 preempts Colorado licensing requirements and interest limitations that otherwise would apply if the United Bank of Denver, which serves as trustee for one or more unnamed pension trusts and is authorized under the terms of the trusts to make loans to plan participants from the trust assets, makes such a such a loan.
Plan that allows employees to select either cash wages or dependent care expense reimbursement as part of their compensation
Unapproved Plug and Socket Combination. - [1910.303]
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