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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 23-19, Change 2, provides clarification of program instructions, Attachment I and revised PDF and Excel versions of Attachment II to TEGL No. 23-19, Change 1, Guidance for Validating Required Performance Data Submitted by Grant Recipients of U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Workforce Programs, issued on October 25, 2022.
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 11-19, Change 1 supersedes TEGL No. 11-19, published February 6, 2020, and developed jointly by the U.S. Departments of Labor and Education. Through this updated guidance, the Departments:
• Revise their approach to using the statistical adjustment model for the purpose of assessing state performance;
• Clarify the implementation of potential financial sanctions for consecutive performance failures occurring across multiple State Plan periods; and
• Clarify that states can be sanctioned up to 10 percent of the Governor’s Reserve Allotment if there is consecutive performance failure and a failure to report for the same program year.
This guidance also continues to delineate the process for negotiating levels of performance, as required by section 116(b)(3)(A)(iv) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) and explains the two instances in which a state may be sanctioned, namely for performance failure or for failure to report (section 116(f) of WIOA).
The revised directive extends the scheduling moratorium for Veterans Affairs Health Benefits Program (VAHBP) Providers for two years, until May 7, 2025.
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 22-21, Change 2 provides states with information on both required and strongly recommended strategies, tools, and services for UI fraud risk mitigation, improper payment reduction, and overpayment recovery; and to announce the availability of up to $200 million in additional ARPA funding and support for states to strengthen UI program integrity, including ID verification, fraud prevention and detection, and overpayment recovery efforts in all UC programs.
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 15-22 provides information to states and outlying areas on Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Title I Adult, Dislocated Worker and Youth Activities program allotments for PY 2023; final PY 2023 allotments for the Wagner-Peyser Act ES Program, as required by section 6(b)(5) of the Wagner-Peyser Act, as amended; and the allotments of Workforce Information Grants to States for PY 2023.
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No.14-22 provides clarifying information to State Workforce Agencies or agencies designated by Governors as “Cooperating State Agencies” (CSAs or “States”) about Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Program phase-out termination, continuing program operations, and prior guidance that remains applicable after June 30, 2022, under the Termination provision established by Section 406 of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Reauthorization Act of 2015 (TAARA 2015).
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 10-22, Change 1 notifies all current state, national, and territory grantees that the deadline for submitting grant applications under TEGL No. 10-22 is extended to May 1, 2023.
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 13-22 provides INA grantees with Comprehensive Services Program (CSP) and Supplemental Youth Services Program (SYSP) funding allotments for PY 2023 for the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), Section 166 programs.
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 05-23 transmits the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared from April 1 through June 30, 2023, (third quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2023).
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter No. 04-23 advises states of sequestration rules for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 to ensure State Workforce Agencies apply these rules to mandatory Unemployment Insurance programs. These rules include the application of sequestration on delayed benefit payments for prior FYs and the resulting administrative costs.
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