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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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The section 7(j) partial overtim exemption for hosptials etc. does not apply to temporary help firms as they are not engaged in the opeartion of a hospital etc.
Requirement for pump jack scaffolds. - [1926.452(j)(7)]
Whether the California Pharmaceutical Association Insurance Trust is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of title I of ERISA and whether the aforementioned Trust is a multiple employer welfare arrangement within the meaning of section 3(40) of title I of ERISA.
Application of FLSA section 3(e)(2)(C) to a member of the county Sheriffs persnoal staff.
Clarification of requirements for 40 hours of training.; Site specific training is required for employees who receive general training. - [1910.1200; 1910.120(e)(2)]
Whether the minutes of trustees’ meetings relating to the trustees’ review of an investment manager’s performance is required to be disclosed pursuant to section 104(b)(4) of ERISA.
City employed firefighters, tour of duty, and agreements to exclude sleep time.
Whether a voluntary deferred compensation plan for employees of El Centro Community Hospital d/b/a El Centro Regional Medical Center is a governmental plan within the meaning of section 3(32) of title I of ERISA and, thus, is excluded from coverage under title I of ERISA by section 4(b)(1).
Whether the Employees' 401(k) Salary Reduction Retirement Plan and Trust, formed pursuant to an Act of the Utah legislature and maintained by several school districts and public education agencies is a "governmental plan" as defined by section 3(32) of title I of ERISA.
Whether the Act 489 of the Acts of Arkansas General Assembly of 1987as it applies to employee benefit plans covered by title I of ERISA is preempted under section 514(a) of ERISA; and whether it qualifies for the exception established in section 514(b)(8) of ERISA.
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