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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Methods of training for microprocessor audiometer technicians. - [1910.95(c)]
Whether section 1316 of the New York Abandoned Property Law (related to unclaimed insurance proceeds other than life insurance) is preempted under section 514 of title I of ERISA.
Acceptable materials for fire fighter protective clothing - [1910.156(e)]
Whether the transfer of seed money from Lincoln National Pension Insurance Company's separate accounts to its general account will not, solely by reason of such transfer, be deemed to involve a violation of any of the prohibited transaction restrictions of ERISA, particularly sections 406(a)(1)(A) and (D) and sections 406(b)(1) and (2).
Whether the Salary Continuance Plan (the Program) of Cummins Engine Company (the Company) constitutes a mere payroll practice within the meaning of regulation 29 C.F.R. §2510.3-1(b)(2) and is thus excluded from title I of ERISA.
The carrier has a contract with a local school district to bus students between their homes and school. The carrier also provides bus service for special school activities such as field trips on an as needed basis section 7(n)
Clarification of 29 CFR 1910.109 as it applies to two kinds of explosive devices used in steel mills. - [1910.109]
Interpretation on refusal to work rights. - [1977]
Interpretation on requirements for insulating rubber gloves in telecommunications work. - [1910.268(n)(1)(i)]
Clarification of the applicable standards for a body belt and lanyard used by an employee working from the bucket of aerial boom trucks. - [1926.959]
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