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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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15-year-olds may work as lifeguards at traditional swimming pools if they are trained and certified. They have to be 16 to work at places other swimming pools.
Prohibitions and/or restrictions on aggressive methods for removing asbestos-containing mastic from floors. - [1926.1101; 1926.1101(b); 1926.1101(g)(8)(i); 1926.1101(g)(8)(i)(D); 1926.1101(g)(8)(vi)]
This letter discusses the compensability of time spent by State employees who attend medical appointments to obtain medical verification.
Whether a program of benefits offered by Wings for Christ would be an "employee welfare benefit plan" within the meaning of section 3(1) of ERISA and whether such program would be subject to state insurance regulation as a MEWA within the meaning of ERISA section 3(40).
Examines an employer's proposed plan to pre-pay wages during
Coverage of volunteers; forklift operator training for multiple facilities determined by similarity of potential workplace hazards. - [1910.178(l); 1910.178(l)(1); 1910.178(l)(3); 1975.4(h)(4)]
Whether in-kind investments in a bank collective investment fund are covered by ERISA section 408(b)(8), if the stated conditions are met.
Requirements for leaving construction equipment and powder-actuated tools unattended on a construction building site; impalement protection from reinforcing steel for masonry workers on a scaffold. - [1910.178(m)(5); 1910.178(m)(5)(ii); 1910.178(m)(5)(iii
When fees received by a bank or an affiliate, in connection with investments in certain mutual funds by IRAs or other qualified retirement plans, are offset against management fees charged by the bank to the plans, would the receipt and offset avoid prohibited transactions under Code section 4975(c)(1)(E) or (F)?
Under Subpart M, whether a lanyard may be connected to another lanyard by a snaphook, provided the potential fall distance is six feet or less. - [1926.500(b); 1926.502(d)(6)]
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