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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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 leave of absence policy for associates in the firm of Parker, Milliken, Clark & O'Hara is a payroll practice within the meaning of regulation 29 C.F.R. §2510.3-1(b)(2) and thus excluded from title I of ERISA.
Whether the transfer of real property to the plan in repayment of an exempt participant loan will not be a prohibited transaction under section 4975 of the Code.
Personnel Hoists. - [1926.552(c)(3)]
Ship's ladders in restricted spaces considered de minimis violations. - [1910.24(e)]
OSHA practices in recognizing national testing laboratories. - [1910.303(a)]
Whether Mr. Melvin Lennard, an impartial arbitrator, is a fiduciary under section 3(21)(A) of ERISA in settling a dispute between management and union trustees of the Warehousemen's Health & Welfare Trust Fund.
Section 13(b)(9) of the Act provides an overtime pay exemption for any employee employed as an announcer, news editor, or chief engineer by a radio or television station
Whether the prohibited transaction exemption contained in section 408(b)(8) of ERISA is available for fund-to-fund investments by pooled funds maintained by a bank. Whether the class exemption for bank collective investment funds (Prohibited Transaction Exemption 80-51) is available for certain transactions of a pooled fund in which another pooled fund has invested.
Whether section 107 of ERISA requires the Harrison Electrical Workers Trust Fund to maintain for six years the health and welfare claims submitted by participants in the Trust, as opposed to the "recaps" used to prepare the annual return/reports.
Eyewash equipment is not an acceptable substitute for protective eyewear. - [1910.151(c)]
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