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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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This letter provides guidance on whether FMLA leave counts as hours worked for future health insurance eligibility.
Clarification on revising a baseline audiogram if a standard threshold shift occurs in only one ear. - [1910.95; 1910.95(g)(9)]
Facial hair and voluntary use of filtering facepiece respirators. - [1910.134; 1910.134(a); 1910.134(c)(2)(ii)]
Applicability of the Fire brigade standard to health care facilities. - [1910.156; 1910.156(a)]
Applicability of HAZWOPER standard to hazardous waste generators that are not conditionally exempt as small quantity generators. - [1910.120; 1910.120(a)(2)(iii); 1910.120(p)(8)]
This letter provides guidance on cafeteria plan allotments; and the maintenance of group health benefits during FMLA leave.
Highway work zones and reflective/warning vests for the protection of off-duty police officers working as flaggers. - [1926.200; 1926.200(g)(2); 1926.201; 1926.201(a)]
This letter provides guidance on volunteer work; civic and charitable work; suffer or permit to work; and portal to portal.
Requirements for carrying and stacking lumber with nails. - [1926.95(a); 1926.250(b)]
Whether OSHA standards prohibit using two power hoists wired together to a single control;whether a minimum of two persons are required to be on board a two-point suspended scaffold. - [1926.451; 1926.451(d)(13); 1926.452]
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