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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Clothing lockers must prevent cross contamination of street clothes. - [1910.1029(i)(1)]
Whether the proposed Fairleigh Dickinson University Voluntary Termination Program (VTP) is a severance pay plan which is not deemed to be an employee pension benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(2) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
Whether section 408(b)(2) of the Act2 exempt(s) not only arrangements for office space and services, but also arrangements for the purchase or lease of goods necessary for the establishment and operation of a plan.
Whether the Wilmington Finishing Company Incentive Payment Program (the Program) which enables employees of Wilmington Finishing Company (the Company) to share in a portion of the Company’s profits each year is not an employee benefit plan as defined in section 3(3) of ERISA.
DOL announced a format change for DBA WDs, specifically, the DOL will publish a consolidated fringe benefit amount rather than separate amounts.
Whether the Local 734 Pension Fund, Laborers’ International Union of North America (the Pension Fund) and the Local 734 Welfare Fund, Laborers' International Union of North America (the Welfare Fund) are covered under 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 Business Travel Accident Insurance program (the Plan) of Northern Telecom, Ltd. which covers employees of Northern Telecom, Ltd., a Canadian corporation, and employees of its subsidiaries, including its United States subsidiary, Northern Telecom, Inc. is exempt from coverage under title I of ERISA by section 4(b)(4) because the majority of its employees are nonresident aliens of the United States.
Carbon Monoxide Alarm/Monitoring at Abrasive Blasting Operations. - [1910.94; 1910.134]
Requirements for off highway vehicles being exported from the UK to the USA. - [1910.169]
Bump caps would not provide adequate employee head protection for all exposures in manholes. - [1910.135 ; 1926.100]
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