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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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To provide guidance on how OFCCP will evaluate federal contractors' compliance with compensation analysis obligations and clarify OFCCP's authority to access and review documentation of compensation analyses conducted pursuant to 41 CFR 60-2.17(b)(3).
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 02-22, Change 1, advises eligible entities that the deadline for submitting a grant application for the QUEST Disaster Recovery DWGs is extended to August 15, 2022.
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 17-22 initiates the SQSP process and defines additional requirements for the FY 2023 SQSP.
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 28-20, Change 4 provides states with information on existing sources of administrative funding to resolve outstanding items from the expired Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act unemployment compensation (UC) programs and to announce up to $225 million for administrative costs related to reporting and overpayment detection and recovery activities under certain CARES Act UC programs.
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 16-22 informs states that the 2022 BAM Paid Claims Peer Reviews are canceled and will be replaced by the PUA Improper Payment Estimate Reviews during the weeks of August 14-20, 2022, and September 18-24, 2022. Federal staff and state staff will review a sample of PUA cases provided by 26 states (half of the total sampled cases for the selected states to be reviewed per review) to establish an estimated national improper payment (IP) rate for the PUA program.
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 15-22 announces that OMB has approved (under OMB approval number 1205-0430) of the extension, with no change, of RJM data information collection.
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 02-22 announces the availability of up to $140 million for Quality Jobs, Equity, Strategy, and Training (QUEST) Disaster Recovery National Dislocated Worker Grants (DWGs), with award amounts of up to $15 million. These funds will enhance the public workforce system’s ongoing efforts to empower America’s unemployed and underemployed workers through worker and business engagement, elevate equity, and connect jobseekers with high-quality jobs.
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 01-22 provides program guidance for the development, management, and delivery of workforce and labor market information (WLMI) funded through the Workforce and Labor Market Information Grants to States (WIGS).
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 14-22 transmits the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared from July 1 – September 30, 2022, (fourth quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2022).
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 16-21 informs the state and local workforce development system of the policies and priorities that govern the award and use of National Dislocated Worker Grant (DWG) funds, pursuant to the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), Title I, Section 170.
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