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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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 a plan, whose participants are members of more than one collective bargaining unit, would fail to satisfy the ERISA section 408(b)(1)(A) requirement that loans be available to all participants and beneficiaries who are parties in interest on a reasonably equivalent basis if loans are available only to participants (and beneficiaries) whose collective bargaining units have agreed to the loan feature.
The interpretation of the medical examinations and consultations for employees who are hired for areas that have ethylene oxide. - [1910.1047]
Whether time spent by a parent who is a volunteer in a public school depends on whether the parent (or who stands in loco parentis) is volunteering in his or her own child's classroom or activities.
Letter requesting a compliance determination of control device system used primarily in paint spray booth applications. - [1910.107]
A qualified employee wearing a short sleeve shirt when working on or nearby energized electric power line or equipment and subject to potential exposure to an electric arc. - [1910.269]
Heat-treating process (using methanol) and the applicability of the Process Safety Management of Highly Hazardous Chemicals Standard. - [1910.119]
Clarification of the electric power generation, transmission, and distribution standard. - [1910.269]
A request, on behalf of Adoptive Families of America, Inc., for guidance concerning the obligations of group health plans under ERISA section 609(c), relating to coverage of dependent children in connection with adoptions.
Interpretation of the Electric Power Generation, Transmission, and Distribution Standard. - [1910.269]
OSHA's approval of the Zurich Hazard Analysis, as an appropriate method for conductiong the process hazard analysis which is required by 1910.119. - [1910.119]
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