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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Rose tint lenses are allowed for safety glasses if they comply with ANSI Z87.1-1968. - [1910.133(b)(2)]
MSDS requirements for products that are composed of a mixture of non-interacting chemicals. - [1910.1200]
Using Fluctuating workweeks as discussed in 778.114 for employees providing lawn care.
Ground-fault protection standards when extension cords are plugged into permanent wiring at construction sites. - [1910.404(b)(1)]
Wire rope and/or cable as a method of perimeter protection for a building under construction. - [1926.500; 1926.451]
Working on oil-drilling rig who is on 24-hour call and works 13 hours. See 785.22
Clarification of 1926.28(a) as to whether an orange vest constitutes personal protective equipment. - [1926.28(a)]
Time spent receiving prescription glasses or medical attention during the regular workday under section 785.43.
Whether the relief from prohibited transactions provided by the Department of Labor’s Prohibited Transaction Exemption 83-1 will be available for certain transactions involving mortgage pools which consist of the Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association (the Bank) new form of Short-Term Mortgage Loan, and whether the placement of principal prepayment amounts in Bank deposit accounts will be exempt from the prohibited transaction provisions of section 406 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) by virtue of section 408(b)(4) of ERISA.
Whether the Iron County Medical Care Facility, also known as County Infirmary’s provision of life insurance for its employees is a governmental plan within the meaning of section 3(32) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and, thus, is not subject to title I of ERISA.
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