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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Information Letter to Honorable Mike Kreidler.
Whether a professional employer organization (PEO) and its client companies would be deemed a single employer for purposes of ERISA section 3(40) by reason of the PEO obtaining options to purchase an 80% interest in each client company.
Provides guidance on terms and safety standards for the vehicle safety obligations found in the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (MSPA).
PTE 92-6 covers the sale, by an employee benefit plan, of a second to die life-insurance policy to two participants who are husband and wife and who are the insured under the policy. The letter also clarifies that the conditions of PTE 92-6 remain the same despite the amendments to the Internal Revenue Code regarding the tax treatment of certain life-insurance policies distributed from employee benefit plans.
Fall protection and aerial lifts in the Electric Power Generation, Transmission, and Distribution industries. - [1910.28; 1910.28(a)(12); 1910.28(d)(7); 1910.28(d)(12); 1910.29; 1910.29(a)(3); 1910.67; 1910.269; 1910.269(a)(2)]
Access to toilet facilities in a call center. - [1910.141; 1910.141(c)(1)(i)]
Posting Timeframe, Quantity, Location
Policy on powered industrial truck operators using prescribed drugs. - [1910.178]
This letter provides guidance on the calculation of overtime with bonuses.
Employer's duty to inform auto mechanic of presence of blood in vehicle being repaired. - [1910.1030; 1910.1030(b)]
Time Before Refiling, Appeals before BALCA, PWD SWA errors, range of experience
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