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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Application of ERISA relating to employee benefit plan investments in futures contracts.
Enforcement criteria for lead monitoring requirements of recirculated air. - [1910.1025(e)(4)(ii)]
Whether the Major Medical Plan of Orange Memorial Hospital Corporation would still constitute an employee benefit plan covered under title I of ERISA if it is also extended to cover employees of the Orange County Ambulance Service.
Retail, commissions 7(i) exemption
Whether a multi-purpose payroll deduction arrangement which includes contributions to an Individual Retirement Account (IRA), made available to members of the Catholic University Federal Credit Union, will not be considered to be an employee pension benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(2) of title I of ERISA.
Whether the provision in section 503 of ERISA requiring plans to provide for full and fair review of claims for benefits is consistent with the Washington-Idaho-Montana Carpenters-Employers Retirement Trust’s procedure for arbitration on appeal of claim denials insofar as the procedure requires a plan participant to share the expenses of arbitration and does not provide for de novo review by the arbitrator of the trustees' decision.
Interpretation of 1910.157. - [1910.157]
Employees are scheduled to work and be paid for seven hours. The employees are off duty and are not paid for two meal periods of 30 minutes uninterrupted.
Standards for flammable and combustible liquids used in industrial plant mixing operations. - [1910.106(e); 1910.106(e)(1)(i)(b); 1910.106(e)(3)]
Whether the Guaranteed Income Stream Benefit Program, part of the collective bargaining agreement between General Motors Corporation (GM) and the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (the UAW), is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of title I of ERISA and not an employee pension benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(2) of title I of ERISA.
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