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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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 the furnishing of goods and services by a United Technologies Corporation (UTC) subsidiary for the repair and maintenance of real property acquired by the Plans maintained by UTC and its subsidiaries is not prohibited by section 406(a) of ERISA where the arrangements for the goods and services are made by a tenant under an absolute-net lease for the property and where the lease requires the tenant to repair and maintain the property; whether services necessary for the maintenance and repair of real property investments that the Plans may acquire qualify as "services necessary for the establishment or operation of the plan …" within the meaning of section 408(b)(2) of ERISA and 29 CFR 2550.408b-2(b); and whether arrangements made with a UTC subsidiary by a tenant under an absolute-net lease or by an independent property manager for maintenance or repair of real property investments of the Plans are not prohibited by section 406(b) of ERISA.
Whether the decision by Plan trustees to select an investment vehicle knowing that such selection would result in the retention of John Hancock Venture Capital Management, Inc. (the Manager), a party in interest, to provide investment and managerial services and the receipt of a management fee by the Manager from John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company (John Hancock), the sponsoring employer of the Plan violates section 406(b).
Clarification on standards for head protection. - [1926.100; 1910.132; 1910.135 ]
OSHA has no specific standards for security guards. - [1910.141]
Whether the Collective Bargaining Agreement Clinic Plan and the Collective Bargaining Agreement Blue Cross Plan covering employees working under a collective bargaining agreement between the Bacardi Corporation, San Juan, Puerto Rico and the Congress of Industrial Unions of Puerto Rico are employee welfare benefit plans within the meaning of section 3(1) of title I of ERISA, and clarification of the term “administrator” within the meaning of ERISA section 3(16) as applied thereto.
Whether the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants (NJSCPA) Insurance Trust constitutes an "employee welfare benefit plan" subject to title I of ERISA, and (2) if not, whether an "accounting organization Subscriber" which constitutes an employer within the meaning of section 3(5) of ERISA and whose employees are covered by the NJSCPA Insurance Trust will be considered to be maintaining an employee welfare benefit plan by participating in the NJSCPA Insurance Trust, and whether the Trustees of the NJSCPA are subject to the bonding requirements of section 412 of ERISA or the reporting and disclosure requirements of part 1 of ERISA in the event such an "accounting organization Subscriber" participates in the NJSCPA Insurance Trust.
Whether the Production Participation Plan of Cibola Energy Corporation which makes yearly payments to individuals from the income from the royalties on certain oil and gas leases is not covered under title I of ERISA.
Citation guidelines in relation to monitoring programs. - [1910.95(d)]
Whether certain procedures for the reporting and valuing of assets deposited with an insurance company in a Guaranteed Investment Contract (GIC) under which both principal and interest would be guaranteed and the accumulated fund payable in a lump sum at the end of a stated period are in accordance with existing reporting requirements of ERISA.
Applicable standards for a body belt and lanyard used by a lineman working from the bucket or aerial boom trucks. - [1926.959]
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