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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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.
Search Tips
- If you are searching using an acronym, try a second search with the acronym spelled out. For example, if you are searching for guidance related to the Davis-Bacon Act, try searching "Davis-Bacon Act" as well as "DBA".
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Fasteners used in tools shall be only those specifically manufactured for use in such tools. - [1926.302]
Use of skin diving hood under respirator for bearded employee unacceptable. - [1910.134(e)(5)(i)]
Warehouse and receiving personnel who engage in loading activities on a weekly basis, would come within the overtime pay exemption contained in section 13(b)( 1 ).
Whether the AFTRA Pension and Welfare Funds may distribute certain plan documents by third-class mail without a guarantee of return and forwarding postage.
Showering requirements of the acrylonitrile standard - [1910.1045(m)(2)]
Whether a payroll deduction program for an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) will constitute an employee pension benefit plan for the purposes of title I of ERISA under certain circumstances.
Inside storage requirements for consumer commodities less than 50% alcohol. - [1910.106(d)(2)]
Construction electrical safety. - [1926.400]
Whether Sutro & Co. Incorporated (Sutro) will be considered to be a "trustee or plan administrator" for purposes of Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 79-1 (PTE 79-1) when it acts as custodian of custodial accounts established under a prototype plan for self-employed persons (the Keogh Plan) or a simplified employee pension (SEP).
Whether, to the extent premiums paid by a Plan are already included in the numerator and denominator of five percent fraction of section 408(b)(5)(B) of ERISA, indemnity reinsurance premiums paid from one insurer to another within an affiliated group for the reinsurance of the risk related to that Plan will not again be included in the numerator or denominator of that fraction.
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