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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Hazard Communication Standard. - [1910.1200]
Interpretation of Blood Test Parameters Under the Benzene Standard - [1910.1028(i); 1910.1028 App C]
Requirements for downstream transmission of material safety data sheets (MSDSs). - [1910.1200(g)]
Whether either the Better Business Bureau Insurance Trust or the utilization of the Trust (the Trust) to provide health care and other benefits to the employees of Griffith's Five Day Tire Store constitutes a MEWA within the meaning of 3(40) and an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of Title I of ERISA. Whether section 514(a) of title I of ERISA would preempt any state law from regulating the Trust.
Clarification of the term "approved". - [1926.152; 1926.32]
Policy concerning OSHA's Hearing Conservation Amendment - [1910.95]
Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) Labeling Requirements for Industrial Thermometers - [1910.1200]
Whether the receipt of "free checking" account services by a customer who directs his IRA to invest $2000 in a Bank financial products would be a prohibited transaction within the meaning of section 4975(c)(1) of the Code.
Whether (1) the amendment and merger of the six Defined Benefit (DB) plans into one DB plan, and (2) the amendment of the stock bonus plan, under the circumstances described therein, would not render the grandfather provision of section 9345(a)(3) of OBRA 87, inapplicable to the Arrangement.
Clarification of the label requirements of the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard (HCS). - [1910.1200(f)]
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