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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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 employer stock between two plans (the Yellow Freight Profit-Sharing Trust and the Yellow Freight System, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Trust) with the same plan sponsor is exempt from the prohibited transaction provisions of section 406 of ERISA and from the taxes imposed by section 4975 of the Code by reason of section 408(e) of ERISA. Whether the method of determining the purchase price of the common stock is permissible under section 408(e) of ERISA.
The letter addresses time study procedures for determining a commensurate wage.
Pneumatic tools must be designed and used in accordance with good engineering practices. - [1926.302]
The letter outlines regulatory language on the payment of a commensurate wage. The letter also analyzes on a particular payment practice that incorrectly includes behavioral factors. Consistent with current policy and the illustrations here add to current statements.
Automobile salespersons exempt from overtime under section 13(b)(10) of the Act. Painter in the body shop of an automobile dealership 7(i)
Section 13(d) would apply to the employees engaged in the delivery of this shopping news publication.
Clarification of the intent of 29 CFR 1926.905(h) and (k). - [1926.905]
Removing synthetic web slings from service. - [1910.184(i)(9); 1910.184(i)(8)]
Whether the R. J. Reynolds Industries, Inc. Individual Retirement Account Plan is a "savings plan" and, as amended, is an "eligible individual account plan" under section 407(d)(3) of ERISA.
Question of whether the noise standard is adjusted for workshifts greater than 8 hours. - [1910.95]
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