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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 20-20, Change 1, provides states with instructions for reconciling funding under Section 2105 of the CARES Act, as amended: Temporary Full Federal Funding of the First Week of Compensable Regular Unemployment for States with No Waiting Week.
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 16-23, Change 1, rescinds revised Appendix E of ET Handbook No. 407 and Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 16-23, Issuance of Revised Appendix E of the Employment and Training (ET) Handbook No. 407.
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 06-23, Change 1, conveys additional Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 WOTC funding allotments and application requirements for State Workforce Agencies (SWAs), based on funding appropriated through a continuing resolution (CR) through February 2, 2024. The rest of TEGL No. 06-23 remains the same.
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 07-23 advises and provides clarity to State Workforce Agencies or agencies designated by Governors as “Cooperating State Agencies” (CSAs or “States”) on the ongoing required activities under the TAA Program pending reauthorization.
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 06-24 ensures states are aware of the locality-based salary rates for certain Federal civilian employees.
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 05-24 announces the Department of Labor’s (Department’s) interpretation concerning the application of state finality laws to temporary UC programs created under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, as amended.
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 04-24 transmits the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared from January 1 – March 31, 2024 (second quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2024).
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 03-24 ensures that states are aware that the social security survivors and old age retirement annuities and the Federal civilian pensions annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) increased for calendar year (CY) 2024, and provides the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) COLA information.
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 02-24 ensures State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) are aware of the Federal military retired pay annual COLA provided by the Department of Defense.
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