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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Employer's responsibility when an employee refuses blood lead testing. - [1910.1025(j)]
Proposed cafeteria plan allows employees to select either cash wages or medical expense reimbursement as part of their compensation. Section 531.40 of 29 CFR Part 531
Whether Shelby County Trust Bank (the Bank) may retain SMC Advisors, Inc. (SMC) to perform investment management and record keeping services for the Bank in the Bank's capacity as trustee for various employee benefit plans whose assets are held by the Bank in the Shelby County Trust Bank Common Trust Fund (the common fund).
NEMA's "Mr. Ouch" labeling system cannot be used in place of signs required by OSHA. - [1910.145; 1926.200]
The safeguarding of piece parts being worked on an outside diameter (O.D.) surface grinder. - [1910.212]
Whether a life insurance payroll deduction program developed by Provident Life & Accident Company (Provident) and United Enterprise Security Corporation (UESC) to be marketed on a group-type basis would constitute an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of ERISA.
Audiometer calibration requirements of the March 8, 1983 Hearing Conservation Amendment. - [1910.95(h)(5)]
Whether section 4(b)(4) of ERISA title I excludes the Group Pension Scheme (the Plan) for employees and former employees of the London and Manchester Assurance Company, Ltd. (a UK Company), from coverage under title I of ERISA as the Plan is now operated. You also question whether, if applicable, the Department will continue to apply the section 4(b)(4) exclusion to the Plan after a transaction that entails a United States custodian holding Plan assets and a United States investment advisor managing investments on behalf of the Plan trustee.
Clarification that a safety device to automatically cut off the flow of compressed air applies only to pneumatic power tools. - [1926.302(b)(7)]
Natural or mined asphalts do not fall within the scope of the Coal Tar Pitch Volatiles Standard. - [1910.1002]
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