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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Deductions made from the compensation of an employee who is paid a fixed salary for a variable or fluctuating workweek. Section 778.114 and 778.325
Work in compressed air and underground tunnelling. - [1926.804; 1926.803]
Deductions by employers from cash wages paid to employees to cover cash shortages. Tipped employees act as their own bank.
Whether a broker-dealer will not be deemed a fiduciary under section 3(21)(A)(ii) of ERISA unless the broker-dealer provides investment advice for distinct, non-transactional compensation.
Propane tank installation in passenger-carrying vehicles. - [1910.110(e)(4)(i)]
If Premium compensation paid to employees for special function work performed during non-normal worktime is excusable from the regular rate of pay computation pursuant to Section 7(e)(5)
Testing requirements for piping, valves, and fittings; Testing requirements for piping, valves, and fittings - [1910.106(c)(1)(i); 1910.106(b)(7)]
Whether an insurance company licensed to sell insurance in the U.S. Virgin Islands will meet the requirement in section II(a)(2) of PTE 79-41 that an insurance company covered by the exemption must be licensed to sell insurance "in at least one of the United States or in the District of Columbia."
Diking requirements for cyanide electroplating baths. - [1910.126(e)]
Whether the Brunswick/Topsham Water District Pension Plan is covered under title I of ERISA.
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