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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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".
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OSHA standards addressing training for employees using personal fall arrest equipment. - [1926.21]
New Fall Protection standards and standards for scaffolds used during dry wall work - [1926.451(a); 1926.451(c); 1926.760(a)(1)]
Public sector firefighters/police Section 7(k) and collective bargaining agreements with an "off duty day" without pay.
This letter provides guidance on the FMLA and the ADA regarding light duty, accommodations; and medical certifications.
Employees in a cotton yarn manufacturing plant who voluntarily wear cloth over their mouths and noses to prevent lint from sticking to their skin. - [1910.134; 1910.1043]
Interpretation Regarding Guardrails Proposed for Coors Stadium. - [1910.23; 1910.28]
Safety concerns at Montana ski areas and OSHA standards for fixed ladders. - [1910.27]
Enforcement of Electric Power Generation, Transmission, and Distribution and Electrical Protective Equipment. - [1910.137; 1910.269]
Whether the employee benefit arrangements of Jeanes Hospital, a medical care institution of the Religious Society of Friends, are “church plans” within the meaning of ERISA section 3(33) of and thus excluded from Title I coverage by ERISA section 4(b)(2).
Whether the Providence Services Pension Plan is a “church plan” or plans within the meaning of ERISA section 3(33) where Providence Services is an institution of St. Ignatius Province of the Sisters of Providence.
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