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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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NEMA's "Mr. Ouch" labeling system cannot be used in place of signs required by OSHA. - [1910.145; 1926.200]
The safeguarding of piece parts being worked on an outside diameter (O.D.) surface grinder. - [1910.212]
Whether a life insurance payroll deduction program developed by Provident Life & Accident Company (Provident) and United Enterprise Security Corporation (UESC) to be marketed on a group-type basis would constitute an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of ERISA.
Whether section 4(b)(4) of ERISA title I excludes the Group Pension Scheme (the Plan) for employees and former employees of the London and Manchester Assurance Company, Ltd. (a UK Company), from coverage under title I of ERISA as the Plan is now operated. You also question whether, if applicable, the Department will continue to apply the section 4(b)(4) exclusion to the Plan after a transaction that entails a United States custodian holding Plan assets and a United States investment advisor managing investments on behalf of the Plan trustee.
Audiometer calibration requirements of the March 8, 1983 Hearing Conservation Amendment. - [1910.95(h)(5)]
Clarification that a safety device to automatically cut off the flow of compressed air applies only to pneumatic power tools. - [1926.302(b)(7)]
Natural or mined asphalts do not fall within the scope of the Coal Tar Pitch Volatiles Standard. - [1910.1002]
Premium pay is provided to employees for Sunday work. Individuals are compensated on the basis of a fluctuating workweek salary pay plan 778.302 and 778.303 render invalid
The application of the fiduciary responsibility provisions of sections 402, 403 and 405 of ERISA to the proposed establishment and subsequent investments of a real estate equity fund. Specifically, if designated under the Investment Management Agreement or Trust Agreement, whether sections 402, 403, and 405 of ERISA would preclude the Frank Russell Trust Company from acting as a Trustee or Investment Manager of the Separate Plans and, as Commingled Trust Trustee with respect to the Real Estate Equity Fund.
Whether an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) payroll deduction program would constitute an employee pension benefit plan where the IRAs are with a bank which handles a major portion of the Company's banking, is a principal lender to the Company and will soon lend additional funds through the purchase of Industrial Revenue Bonds (IRBs) for a significant dollar amount.
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