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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Whether the Easco Corporation Health Benefit Plan, with Easco providing for a self-funded arrangement for benefits not in excess of a specified amount and Aetna Life Insurance Company paying benefits in excess of such amounts under a group insurance policy, is an employee welfare benefit plan covered by title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
Employees do tilling, cultivating, and harvesting fruit and vegetables, the farm operates a retail farm market. Agriculture or irrigation section 13(b)(12)
Where the PBGC appointed itself trustee of the Inpak, Inc. Pension Plan effective March 31, 1980, whether the administrator of the Plan is required to comply with the following reporting and disclosure requirements of ERISA for any year subsequent to the plan year ended March 31, 1980: (1) preparation and filing of an annual return/report (Form 5500 series), including any schedules, financial statements and accounting and/or actuarial opinions required to be appended thereto; (2) preparation and distribution of summary annual reports to participants; and (3)preparation and distribution of summary plan descriptions to participants and filing a copy of the summary plan description with the Secretary of Labor.
Whether Fireside Thrift Co., an industrial loan company, is a "bank or similar financial institution" within the meaning of section 408(b)(4) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA").
Whether the payment of finder fees by the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society (PSFS) to investment brokerage firms which refer an individual to PSFS for the establishment of a PSFS IRA would not be a prohibited transaction under section 4975(c)(1) of the Code (or section 406 of ERISA).
Utilization of a Stop Time Measuring Instrument for Verification of Compliance With 29 CFR 1910.217. - [1910.217]
Whether the Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority’s "cafeteria" plan covering only Authority employees, which may, under certain options, include its employees in a larger group in order to obtain favorable group insurance rates, is a governmental plan.
Whether under section 406 of ERISA (Company) and other members of its controlled group may retain (Bank) as trustee of various employee benefit plans which (Company) or any member of its controlled group maintain, or in the future may maintain, and that (Bank) may be paid reasonable compensation for trustee service performed. Whether plan assets may be invested in (Bank's) commingled short-term investment fund without engaging in a prohibited transaction under section 406 of ERISA.
Bonuses under the plans will be distributed in terms of "cents per hour" (bonus wages rate) and will be based on actual hours worked. The payment will be adjusted for overtime hours. Section 7(e)
Whether employers adopting SEP arrangements with Foothill Thrift, an industrial loan company, would not be precluded from using the alternative method of compliance prescribed in 29 CFR §2520.104-49 by reason of certain limitations on the withdrawal of funds by participants exercisable by Foothill Thrift. Whether the limitations on withdrawal provisions of Foothill Thrift's IRA investment certificates, which could possibly affect withdrawals of contributions under a SEP arrangement, are deemed to be "provisions that prohibit the withdrawal of funds by participants" within the meaning of such phrase as it is used in §2520.104-49.
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