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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Information Letter to LaDonna Wallace.
Information Letter on whether Title I of ERISA prohibits the use of a single document to serve as both a plan document and a summary plan description (SPD) or expressly requires that the SPD and plan document be two separate documents.
Application of 1910.1020 to 7(c)(1) consultation activity. - [1910.1020; 1908.6 ]
Interpretation when height of exit route corridors are lower than specified. - [1910.36; 1910.37; 1910.36(g)(1)]
Training requirements for employees exposed to lead above and below the action level; Exposure monitoring requirements of the lead standard. - [1910.1025(l)(1)(i); 1910.1025(d)]
CPL 02-02-031 [CPL 2-2.31] - National - Cotton Dust Manual - 01/16/1981
The appropriate location for an air pressure sensor. - [1910.217]
Securing fixed scaffolding. - [1926.451]
Whether the participant whose benefits are garnished must be in pay status when the court decree is entered or when the decree is enforced.
Advisory opinion regarding (1) the requirement contained in section 103(a)(3)(A) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) that a plan engage an independent qualified public accountant, and (2) the requirement of section 103(b) of ERISA that a plan include in its annual report a report from such qualified public accountant regarding the financial status of the plan.
The application of presence sensing devices to general purpose power press brakes. - [1910.217]
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