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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Meeting labeling requirements of hazard communication standard for slag wool. - [1910.1200(f)]
OSHA jurisdiction over employees working in an Indian reservation clinic. - [1975.4(b)(3)]
Variance request on conditions surrounding a citation under litigation. - [1926.556]
Health and safety plans for hazardous waste operations & emergency response. - [1910.120]
Request for approval of guardrail system. - [1926.500]
Construction industry general duty clause, and the bloodborne pathogens standard. - [1910.1030]
Whether the Fleming Employees' Supplemental Disability Plan, established by a group of employees of Fleming Foods Companies, Inc. to provide disability benefits that would supplement disability benefits provided by Fleming to its employees through a disability insurance program, is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of Title I of ERISA.
Whether a proposed group health program that would provide accident, medical, surgical and dental benefits to employees of the Coordination Council for North American Affairs resident in the United States, who would include Republic of China (Taiwan) nationals, United States nationals, and individuals maintaining both Republic of China and United States citizenship, would be an employee welfare benefit plan covered by Title I of ERISA.
Examines the criteria contained in 785.27 to determine whether all four conditions are met. Since the purpose of the program is career development in another skill rather than to enhance the officer's performance in his present job, the interview by the officer during off-duty hours is noncompensable under the FLSA.
The compensability of on-call time for firefighters may well turn on the frequency of emergency calls. If calls to duty are so frequent that employees cannot use their off-duty time effectively for their own benefit, the entire on-call period would be compensable.
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