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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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 Field Assistance Bulletin (FAB) rescinds FAB 2020-2 and provides updated guidance to Wage and Hour Division (WHD) field staff regarding the practice of seeking liquidated damages in settlements in lieu of litigation (liquidated damages).
This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter provides guidance on certain amendments related to the EB program contained in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, Public Law (Pub. L.) 117-2.
This set of FAQs addresses Mental Health Parity Implementation and the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021.
The FAQs provide guidance on PTE 2020-02 and information on the Department’s next steps in its regulation of investment advice.
This Change 1 to the Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 06-20 conveys the remaining balance for WOTC and explains application requirements for State Workforce Agencies (SWA) based on funding appropriated for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 through September 30, 2022. Additionally, this TEGL announces 12 states selected to receive additional FY 2021 backlog funding and provides instructions to those states on how to proceed. The remainder of TEGL No. 06-20 remains the same.
This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) provides adjusted funding levels for PY 2020 allotments for the DW program under WIOA Title I Section 132(c) on recapture and reallotment.
This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) provides updated procedural guidance to state workforce agencies (SWA) on the WOTC certification process. This TEGL and the materials and forms it discusses supersede the guidance outlined in the Third Edition of Employment and Training Administration (ETA) Handbook No. 408, published in November 2002, and its August 2009 Addendum.
This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) provides guidance about the extension of the FPUC and the MEUC program authorized by Section 9013 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, Public Law (Pub. L.) 117-2.
This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter provides guidance about the changes to the PEUC program authorized by Section 9016 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA), Public Law (Pub. L.) 117-2.
This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter provides states with instructions for implementing the recent statutory changes to the emergency unemployment relief for state and local governmental entities, certain nonprofit organizations, and federally-recognized Indian Tribes provided in ARPA, Public Law (Pub. L.) 117-2, which amends Section 903(i) of the Social Security Act (SSA) (42 U.S.C. § 1103(i)).
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