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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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A sample presentation developed by OSHA that employers or other instructors may customize and use to train their employees according to the requirements of OSHA’s COVID-19 ETS, 29 CFR 1910.502.
This fact sheet highlights new requirements in the COVID-19 Healthcare ETS to prevent worker exposure to the coronavirus and ways it protects workers from retaliation for exercising their rights under the ETS.
This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) 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, 2021, (fourth quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2021).
In response to OSHA's COVID-19 Healthcare ETS, this document explains employer requirements and provides guidance for recording COVID-19 cases on the COVID -19 log.
Outlines the mini respiratory protection program (29 CFR 1910.504) that is one part of the OSHA COVID-19 Healthcare ETS that applies when workers are not exposed to suspected or confirmed sources of COVID-19 but where respirator use could offer enhanced worker protection.
This fact sheet highlights some of the new requirements of the healthcare ETS aimed at protecting workers facing the highest COVID-19 hazards— those working in healthcare settings where suspected or confirmed COVID-19 patients are treated.
This summary, in English, highlights some of the new requirements of the COVID-19 ETS; employers should consult the standard for full details.
Frequently asked questions on the COVID-19 Healthcare Emergency Temporary Standard.
OSHA issued an emergency temporary standard to protect healthcare and healthcare support service workers from occupational exposure to COVID-19 in settings where people with COVID-19 are reasonably expected to be.
This fact sheet summarizes OSHA’s COVID-19 ETS, contained in 29 CFR 1910 Subpart U.
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