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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Costs of employee training under the noise standard paid by employer. - [1910.95(k)]
Whether the retirement plan (the Plan) sponsored by Searle & Co. can exclude from its annual return/report (Form 5500) the report of an independent qualified public accountant, which is generally required by Section 103(a)(3)(B), of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 but also may be limited by regulation 29 CFR 2520.103-8, because all of the Plan’s assets are held by a bank authorized by the Department of Treasury to perform as trustee, is subject to periodic audit and examination by both the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and Federal agencies, and the return is accompanied by an actuarial report detailing the Plan’s general situation produced and certified annually by an enrolled actuary.
Workers cannot sign a release so they can wear a respirator with a beard. - [1910.134(g)(1)(i)]
Whether section 514 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 preempts Colorado licensing requirements and interest limitations that otherwise would apply if the United Bank of Denver, which serves as trustee for one or more unnamed pension trusts and is authorized under the terms of the trusts to make loans to plan participants from the trust assets, makes such a such a loan.
Whether the A.I. McDermott Co., Inc. Health and Welfare Trust (the Trust), a welfare benefit plan with fewer than 100 participants, qualifies for the limited exemption to the reporting and disclosure requirements of title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 for certain small welfare plans prescribed in 29 C.F.R. §2520.104-20.
Plan that allows employees to select either cash wages or dependent care expense reimbursement as part of their compensation
Unapproved Plug and Socket Combination. - [1910.303]
Discusses civil judgments against farm labor contractors and when the Department will take action on such judgments
Whether it is not a per se violation of section 406(b)(1) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 or section 4975(c)(1)(E) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 for Rogers, Casey & Barksdale, Inc. (RCB), an investment manager to recommend to an employee benefit plan (Plan) that it invest in any RCB-managed funds if RCB discloses the nature of its relationship to the managed fund and provides all other relevant information to an independent plan fiduciary who will, based on such information, independently review the proposed transaction and make the investment decision.
Would the Trustees of a jointly administered labor-management Vacation Trust Fund (Vacation Fund) and Pension-Annuity Trust Fund (Pension Fund), engage in one or more prohibited transaction(s) by terminating the Vacation Fund (inactive since June 1975), and, after paying unclaimed benefits from that Fund, transferring remaining funds to the Pension Fund, and, if so, would an agreement to indemnify the Vacation Trust from any harm resulting from the transfer be an exculpatory provision under section 410(a) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
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