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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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- 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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Scale guard requirements for forging hammers. - [1910.218(a)(3)(viii)]
Guarding requirements for radial saws. - [1910.213(h)(1)]
Distance requirements for placement of propane gas tanks. - [1910.110(b)(6)]
Restricting fans to low speed does not void machine guarding standards. - [1910.212(a)(5)]
A non-profit institution engaged in the non-residential care of "dependent neglected children" is not covered as an enterprise; however, institution also operated a preschool and that part of the operation is covered as an enterprise.
Guidance on prohibited transaction rules where a party in interest has engaged in a transaction with a corporation or partnership in which the plan has invested. Amended by regulation dealing with the definition of “plan assets” 2510.3-101 (11/13/86 and
Using a helicopter to set an electrical transmission tower. - [1926.551(l)]
FLSA section 13(a)(3) seasonal recreational exemption applied to city lifeguards guarding a beach open less than seven month of the year even though some guards worked more than seven month repairing beach equipment.
Nonenforcement position under the Fair Labor Standards Act to helicopter pilots engaged in forest management and certain other flying activities.
Use of fire treated cardboard to facilitate clean-up on the floors and walls of spray booths. - [1910.107(b)(3)]
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