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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Announces guidance to help reduce the risk of exposure to coronavirus in meat and poultry processing facilities.
This memorandum provides instructions and guidance to Area Offices and compliance safety and health officers (CSHOs) for enforcing 29 CFR § 1910.134, with regard to the reuse of filtering facepiece respirators during COVID-19.
Provides tips to help reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus in the construction industry.
Provides tips to help reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus in the construction industry in Spanish.
This directive supplements Directive 2018-09 with additional programmatic details for the Ombuds Service.
This directive establishs a mediation program offered by OFCCP to federal contractors and subcontractors to resolve findings of discrimination violations prior to referrals to the Office of the Solicitor for enforcement.
This directive announces operational initiatives to keep the number of cases that are aged below 15 percent of OFCCP’s total caseload.
Provides instruction to Compliance Safety and Health Officers (CSHOs) to evaluate whether the employer made good faith efforts to comply with applicable OSHA standards and, in situations where compliance was not possible, to ensure that employees were not exposed to hazards from tasks, processes, or equipment for which they were not prepared or trained.
Video about handwashing practices to keep workers safe during COVID-19 in Spanish.
Tips to help reduce the risk of exposure to the coronavirus in the package delivery industry in Spanish.
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