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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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 benefit program maintained by the Lower Merion Township Police Pension Association is subject to title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
Whether the sale of capital stock of Kansas City Life Insurance Company (the Company) held by the Trustees of the Kansas City Life Insurance Company Savings and Investment Plan (the Plan) directly to the Company amounts to a prohibited transaction within the meaning of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
Evaluation of hair pen point of operation guards - [1910.217(c)(1)(i)]
Whether the proposed tax deferred annuity plan (the TDA Plan) for the employees of St. Luke’s Hospital Medical Center (the Employer) will not fall within the scope of regulation §2510.3-2(f) because it does not involve salary reduction agreements or agreements to forego an increase in salary.
This Advisory Opinion concerns the coverage of the Pension Plan of the Welfare and Pension Fund, Mid-Jersey Trucking Industry, Local 701, International Brotherhood of Teamsters (the Pension Plan) under both title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the predecessor law, the Welfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act, as Amended (WPPDA).
Controlled descent devices. - [1926.951(b)(4)(ii)]
CPL 02-02-027 [CPL 2-2.27] - National - Benzidine - Based Dyes: Direct Black 38, Direct Brown 95 and Direct Blue 6 Dyes - 02/22/1980
Disscussion on what constitutes a ":major part" under section 13(a)(8) of the FLSA to any employee employed in connection with the publication of any weekly, semi-weekly, or daily newspaperwith a circulation of less than four thousand the major part of which circulation is within the county where published or counties contiguous. The "major part" means the majority, or over 50 percent, of the newspaper's circulation.
Kelly Bushings on Oil Well Drilling Rigs - [1910.212(a)(1); 1910.212(a)(2)]
Citing of Reversed Polarity. - [1910.309]
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