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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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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 Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) provides INA grantees with Comprehensive Services Program (CSP) and Supplemental Youth Services Program (SYSP) funding allotments for PY 2021 for the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Section 166 programs, and notifies grantees of the required submission of Standard Form (SF) 424 - Application for Federal Assistance, SF 424A - Budget Information (Non-Construction Programs), and Budget Narrative.
This pamphlet reminds employers and workers of the importance of personal protective equipment (PPE) to minimize worker exposure to hazards and keep workers safe during natural disasters, biological hazards, accidental releases, and terrorism events.
This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL), Change 1, provides clarification on Registered Apprenticeship Programs (RAPs) as WIOA Title I Eligible Training Providers (ETP).
This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL), Change 1, provides clarification on Registered Apprenticeship Programs (RAPs) as WIOA Title I Eligible Training Providers (ETP).
This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) provides guidance to State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) regarding FY 2021 annual grant allocations for foreign labor certification activities.
This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) provides SCSEP grantees with PY 2021 allotments and grant application instructions, and dissemination of annual Federal poverty guidelines used in SCSEP eligibility determinations.
This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter advises states of appropriate circumstances for assessing a monetary fraud penalty and for assessing interest and other collection costs on benefit overpayments created under the CARES Act (Public Law (Pub. L.) 116-136), as amended; and to provide instructions for circumstances under which a state may waive recovery of overpayments, including limited circumstances for permissible use of "blanket waivers."
This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter provides guidance to states on the proportional distribution methodology for recovering federally funded UC benefits, which are held by banks and financial institutions as a result of suspicious and/or potentially fraudulent activity.
This guidance highlights and explains certain medical surveillance requirements in OSHA’s health standards for beryllium.
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