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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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.
Search Tips
- 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".
- For more specific results, use quotation marks around phrases.
- For more general results, remove quotation marks to search for each word individually. For example, minimum wage will return all documents that have either the word minimum or the word wage in the description, while “minimum wage” will limit results to those containing that phrase.
Application of 1910.120 to cleanup of nuclear and hazardous waste - [1910.120]
Effectiveness of the Glove Box for removal of asbestos-containing pipe insulation. - [1926.1101(g)(5)(iv)]
Letter to Diesel Fuel Manufacturers - [1910.1200]
Hazard Communication Standard. - [1910.1200]
Underground Storage Tanks - [1910.120]
Whether a contribution by an employer of real property to an employee stock ownership plan violates the prohibited transaction provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
Whether: (1) the acquisition or sale of G & O common stock by the Plan from or to parties in interest will not violate the provisions of sections 406 and 407 of ERISA by reason of section 408(e) of ERISA, and (2) an acquisition or sale of G & O common stock by the Plan that otherwise satisfies the requirements of section 408(e) will not constitute a prohibited transaction by reason of purchases and sales of G & O common stock by persons other than the Plan at the formula price described in the Stockholder’s Agreement.
Machine guarding for drilling operations. - [1910 Subpart O; 1910.212(a)(1)]
HCS on Hazard warnings required on product labels - [1910.1200(f)]
DOL advised agencies fo FLSA Amendments raising the minimum wage and its effect on DBA and SCA contracts
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