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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Addresses several questions on the application of the fiduciary responsibility provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to the termination and proposed transfer of the excess funds of one employee welfare benefit plan to another employee welfare benefit plan where both plans are jointly-administered, labor management trust funds established under collective bargaining agreements pursuant to section 302(c) of the Labor Management Relations Act.
Whether the Western Growers Assurance Trust (WGAT) is a multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) within the meaning of section 3(40) of Title I of ERISA and therefore subject under section 514(b)(6) of that title to applicable state insurance regulation.
Exposure of trainers and team physicians to body fluids. - [1910.1030]
Standpipe and hose systems. - [1910.156; 1910.158]
How Minimum Wage and Overtime exemptions under 13(a)(15) and 13(b)(21) apply to employees working and residing in a private home, hospitals; and Travel time
Interpretation of coverage for the telecommunications industry with regard to the new Permit-Required Confined Spaces standard. - [1910.5; 1910.146; 1910.268]
OSHA authority over injuries to the public. - [1975.3]
Addresses questions on the application of the fiduciary responsibility provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to the termination and transfer of excess funds of the Alaska Laborers-Employers Legal Services Fund to the Alaska Laborers & Construction Industry Health & Security Fund where both are jointly-administered, labor management trust funds established under collective bargaining agreements.
Addresses questions on the application of the fiduciary responsibility provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to the termination and proposed transfer of the excess funds of one employee welfare benefit plan to a related employee welfare benefit plan where both are jointly-administered, labor-management trust funds established under collective bargaining agreements pursuant to section 302(c) of the Labor Management Relations Act.
Fire extinguisher requirements of Hazard Communication Standard. - [1910.1200]
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