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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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. 12-21, Change 1 provides updated guidance to State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) regarding foreign labor certification activities impacted by implementation of new H-2A regulations published by the Department of Labor (Department) on October 12, 2022, and announce the allotments for FY2023 foreign labor certification grants.
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 10-22 announces the availability of $ 9,500,000 to assist SCSEP state, territory, and national grantees with IT implementation and support costs related to the Department of Labor transition and implementation of the new Grantee Performance Management System (GPMS) case management tool. These grants will be funded through SCSEP recaptured funds.
Training and Employment Guidance Letter No. 11-22 provides adjusted funding levels for Program Year 2022 allotments for the Dislocated Worker program under Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Title I Section 132(c) on recapture and reallotment.
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 06-22, Change 1 conveys the remaining balance for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 WOTC funding allotments and explains application requirements for State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) based on appropriated funding. Additionally, this Change 1 TEGL announces 14 states selected to receive additional FY 2023 backlog award funding and provides instructions to those states on how to proceed. The rest of TEGL No. 06-22 remains the same.
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter No. 03-23 announces the availability of Department-funded operational and technical resources and services to state ARPA grantees and provides guidance for modifying grants that have been previously awarded to grantees that want to avail themselves of these services.
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 09-22 provides guidance and planning information to states, local workforce areas, and other recipients of Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Title I youth formula funds on the activities associated with the implementation of WIOA.
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 03-22, Change 1 advises eligible entities for the Department of Labor’s (Department) Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending projects that the deadline for submitting an application has been extended to March 31, 2023.
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Unemployment Insurance Program Letter No. 02-23 provides guidelines for the FY 2023 UI RESEA grants and to invite State Workforce Agencies to submit a RESEA State Plan.
Training and Employment Guidance Letter No. 08-22 provides guidelines for the FY 2023 UI RESEA grants and to invite State Workforce Agencies to submit a RESEA State Plan.
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