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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Opines that those nonexempt employees who work this schedule must be paid one and one-half times their regular rate of pay for hours worked over 40 in a workweek. Also notes that section 207(o) authorizes a public agency to provide compensatory time off within certain limintations.
Training requirements under 1910.120 for General firefighters and police officers - [1910.120(a)(3); 1910.120(q)(6)]
CPL 02-00-087 [CPL 2.87] - National - Inspection Procedures for Enforcing the Excavation Standard, 29 CFR 1926, Subpart P - 02/20/1990
Application of the Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) to Independent beauty salon Contractors - [1975.3; 1910.1200(b)]
Whether the voluntary unemployment compensation disability plan (the Plan) of the Measurex Corporation, Measurex Systems, Inc., and Measurex Automation Systems, Inc., is excluded from coverage under title I of ERISA by section 4(b)(3) of ERISA.
Whether the F/V Inshore Group Health Plan (the Plan) is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of title I of ERISA and therefore must comply with that title, and the Plan is subject to state regulation at least to the extent provided in section 514(b)(6)(A) regardless of whether the Plan is an employee benefit plan covered by title I of ERISA.
Whether the Physicians and Hospitals Benefits Trust (PHBT) is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of title I of ERISA and whether PHBT is a multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) within the meaning of section 3(40) of that title, and whether PHBT is subject to state regulation at least to the extent provided in section 514(b)(6)(A), regardless of whether it is an employee benefit plan covered by title I of ERISA, because it is a MEWA within the meaning of section 13(40) of that title.
The transmittal of material safety data sheets (MSDS). - [1910.1200]
29 CFR 1910.1020 Application to Workplace Drug Testing Results. - [1910.1020; 1910.1020(c)]
Jurisdiction over Tank Car Drivers and Helpers. - [1975.1]
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