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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Whether the proposed sale of the trademarks and stock of Empro Intangibles, Inc., wholly owned by the trustees of the plan and used only as a vehicle to hold the trademarks, is a transaction described in section 414(c)(3) of ERISA and, therefore, is exempt from the prohibited transaction provisions of sections 406 and 407 of ERISA and section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code. Whether the procedure of engaging a law firm to value the assets and negotiate the transaction on behalf of the Plan is an acceptable method for determining the fair market value of the assets in question and for effecting the transaction.
Standard applies to tank trucks, not towing kettles. - [1926.152(g)(2)]
Trainees are not necessarily entitled to a job at the end of the training period, an employer-employee relationship would not exist between the client and the trainees during the training period.
Provisions for mounting lighting on guardrails. - [1910.23(e)(5)(iii)]
Drivers pick-up and deliver to the client's warehouse defective television and stereo sets from customers within the State. The exemption contained in section 13(b)(l) of the Act would have no application to the drivers.
Whether the Guaranteed Income Stream Benefit Program, part of the collective bargaining agreement between Ford Motor Company and the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (the UAW), is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of title I of ERISA and not an employee pension benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(2) of title I of ERISA.
Whether the Bordine's Better Blooms Voluntary Employee Benefit Trust qualifies for the limited exemption under Department of Labor regulation 29 C.F.R §2520.104-20, regarding the filing of Forms 5500 for employee welfare benefit plans with fewer than 100 participants.
Whether the Boards of Trustees of the Construction Industry Laborers Pension Fund and Construction Industry Laborers Welfare Fund or the plan administrator are not required by section 104(b)(4) of ERISA or 29 CFR §2520.102-3(t)(2) to make available, upon written request of a participant, past participant or beneficiary, copies of minutes of the regular and/or special meetings of the Boards of Trustees or the Committee meetings of said Boards.
Whether the following acts or transactions are prohibited by section 406 of ERISA:
- Direct reporting by a multiemployer plan, or by an insurance company or other party making payments on behalf of the plan, to comply with section 6051(f) of the Code.
- Payment by a multiemployer plan, or by an insurance company or other party making payments on behalf of the plan, of the employer's portion of the FICA taxes on sick pay.
- Participation by the employer-appointed trustees in implementing either of the above.
- Payment by a multiemployer plan of the employee's portion of the FICA taxes on sick pay, through either the direct or the indirect method as described above.
Letter concerning two pneumatic plier straightening presses. - [1910.212]
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