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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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 an amendment of defined benefit plan reducing future benefit accruals will affect the grandfathered status under OBRA '87 of a floor offset arrangement of which the defined benefit plan is a part with a stock bonus plan.
Examines the characteristics of an internship program to determine whether an employment relationship exists. Discusses the six factor test to make the determination.
Maximum allowable distance between supports for temporary electrical wiring. - [1926.402(a); 1926.403(b)(1); 1926.405(a)(2)]
Examines whether reimbursement for certain employee meal expenses may be properly excluded from the employee's regular rate of pay under the FLSA under section 7(e)(2).
Discusses whether a timekeeping system that is the same for exempt and nonexempt employees can be permissible.
Requirements for use of high-visibility warning garments by construction workers in highway work zones. - [1926.200; 1926.201; 1926.202; 1926.203; 1926.201(a); 1926.200(g)(2); 1926.651(d)]
Enforcement of the engineering and work practice control provisions of the lead standard, 1910.1025(e)(1). - [1910.1025; 1910.1025(e)(1)]
Evaluation of the use of aluminum forms as an exit route from trench excavations. - [1926.651; 1926.651(c)(2)]
Electrical equipment approved by a NRTL is acceptable to OSHA. - [1910.7; 1910.303(a); 1910.303(b); 1910.399]
Requirements for providing eyewashes/showers near spray finishing operations. - [1910.151(c); 1910.107]
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