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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Whether the two plans sponsored by the Local No. 9 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) qualify for the limited exemption for certain dues financed welfare plans maintained by employee organizations, provided by regulation 29 CFR §2520.104¬26 under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
Requirements for employee notification of exposure monitoring results under the lead standard. - [1910.1025]
Whether the eleven plans identified in the request are covered by both title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the predecessor law, the Welfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act, as Amended (WPPDA).
Whether the Maryland Classified Employees Association Insurance Trust (the Trust) which is sponsored by the Maryland Classified Employees Association (MCEA), a state-wide organization which represents employees of the State of Maryland with regard to employment and working conditions is a governmental plan as defined in section 3(32) of ERISA.
Seat belt usage requirement. - [1926.602]
Employees must be paid for travel time for medical examination under the inorganic arsenic standard. - [1910.1018(n)(1)(ii)]
The request asks the Department to reconsider its advisory opinion of January 15, 1979 that holiday and vacation payments made to employees by the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement with the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Unions (ILWU) constituted employee welfare benefit plans within the meaning of ERISA title I, and whether a pay guarantee plan, also the result of collective bargaining between PMA and ILWU and the subject of an information letter issued by the Department on January 18, 1979, should not be considered an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of ERISA title I.
Whether the Civil Employee Association Insurance Trust (the Trust) which is sponsored by the city of Baltimore would be a governmental plan as governmental plan as defined in section 3(32) of ERISA.
Whether the sick pay plan; the hospital, surgical, and medical benefits plan; the annuity plan; and the pension plan established or maintained by the Hospital for its employees are “governmental plans” within the meaning of section 3(32) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and, thus, are excluded from ERISA title I coverage by ERISA section 4(b)(1).
Whether the Miami Elevator Constructors Trust (the Trust) is an employee pension benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(2) of ERISA; whether, upon termination of the Trust, plan assets must be allocated pursuant to section 403(d)(1) of ERISA; and whether the Trust is subject to the vesting requirements set forth in part 2 of title I of ERISA.
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