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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Clarification of 29 CFR 1926.855(b) and (f) - [1926.855(b); 1926.855(f)]
Clarification on initial examinations required under the cotton dust standard. - [1910.1043(h)(2)]
The application of the Department's policies on compensable hours of work to drivers employed by highway mail haul contractors who are subject to the provisions of the Service Contract Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Lifelines must be a minimum of 3/4 inch manila or equivalent, with a minimum breaking strength of 5,400 pounds. - [1926.104]
1910.123-1910.126, As Applied to Dip Tanks Containing Varnish for Electric Motor Coating. - [1910.123; 1910.124; 1910.125; 1910.126]
Employees of a food concessionaire operating on the premises of an amusement or recreational establishment, such as a baseball park, will come within the section 13(a)(3) exemption provided the operations of the concessionaire and host establishment constitute a single establishment which meets the requirements for the exemption. This exemption would not apply to employees who are employed by the concessionaire's central establishment or its other establishments which are not on the premises of an amusement or recreational stablishment
1910.218(e)(1)(i) applies to pneumatic drop hammers used in hot forging operations. - [1910.218(e)(1)(i)]
Request for temporary variance to housekeeping requirements for vacuuming under the lead standard; Criteria for portable vacuum machines for vacuuming clothing. - [1910.1025(h)(2)(ii); 1910.1025(i)(4)(iv)]
Sectionalized rail systems. - [1910.23]
Pneumatically operated staplers. - [1910.212; 1910.243; 1926.302]
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