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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Collective bargaining agreement contingency provisions are prohibited by DOL.
Whether the Food Employers Labor Relations Association and Retail Store Employees Union Severance Plan would be a severance pay plan described in Department of Labor regulation section 29 C.F.R. 2510.3-2(b) if certain described acts occur.
Under 553.212, a person who spends more than 20 percent of his/her working time in activities that are not law enforcement activities, as defined in the regulations, is not considered to be an employee engaged in law enforcement activities for the purposes of 213(b)(20) and 207(k). An individual who is employed primarily in the highway department cannot qualify for exemption under 213(b)(20).
Whether the Emergency Relief Fund of the Southern Labor Union is an unfunded dues financed welfare plan maintained by an employee organization within the meaning of Department of Labor regulation section 29 C.F.R. 2520.104-26 and therefore exempt from filing certain reports with the Department or disclosing certain information to participants.
Whether a stop-loss insurance policy purchase by the employer sponsoring a welfare benefit plan that provides benefits exclusively out of the employer general assets would be assets of the plan under ERISA.
Electrical safety related work practices applicable to employees operating or working on or nearby, motor control centers in the workplace. - [1910.303; 1910.304]
Multi-piece Rim Wheel. - [1910.177]
Approval of temporary power for a construction site. - [1926.403(a); 1926.449]
Storage of flammable and combustible liquids in a storage room within a warehouse facility. - [1910.106]
Whether or not guards are required for fan blades on an electrical transformer. - [1910.212]
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