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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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.
Search Tips
- If you are searching using an acronym, try a second search with the acronym spelled out. For example, if you are searching for guidance related to the Davis-Bacon Act, try searching "Davis-Bacon Act" as well as "DBA".
- For more specific results, use quotation marks around phrases.
- For more general results, remove quotation marks to search for each word individually. For example, minimum wage will return all documents that have either the word minimum or the word wage in the description, while “minimum wage” will limit results to those containing that phrase.
Frequently asked questions on the COVID-19 Healthcare Emergency Temporary Standard.
This fact sheet summarizes OSHA’s COVID-19 ETS, contained in 29 CFR 1910 Subpart U.
This webpage provides information and resources for employers and workers about the rule, including enforcement, and implementing the rule.
Employers may use this flow chart to determine whether and how your workplace is covered by the ETS.
Information Letter to Cassie Springer Ayeni.
Information Letter concerning whether the provisions of the claims procedure regulation at 29 CFR 2560.503-1 require the plan to provide to a claimant, a copy of an audio recording of a telephone conversation relating to an adverse benefit determination.
This set of FAQs addresses limitations on cost sharing under the Affordable Care Act.
This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) will assist State Workforce Agencies or agencies designated by Governors as "Cooperating State Agencies" (CSAs or "states") to implement the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Program reversion provisions of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Reauthorization Act of 2015 (TAARA 2015) by providing operating instructions that apply to the program benefits applicable to adversely affected workers covered by petitions filed on or after July 1, 2021, and by identifying prior guidance that remains applicable to CSAs. Employment and Training Administration (ETA) refers to this version of the TAA Program, described in these operating instructions set out in Attachment A, as "Reversion 2021."
This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) requests that states provide the Department of Labor (Department), using Form MA 8-7, information pertaining to state compliance for receipt of emergency administrative grants. Additionally, this UIPL clarifies the benefit offset requirements for collection of overpayments.
This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) provides preparation and submission instructions and conveys grant allotments for Program Year (PY) 2021.
This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter provides guidance to states regarding UC flexibilities related to COVID-19, specifically on how states can use the STC program to support reopening the economy.
This button allows you to download all records in the database as of 1:00 am ET today into a CSV file. Please note that record changes made today will not be reflected until tomorrow.