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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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 provdes guidance on volunteer work as compensable time.
This letter provides guidance on the administrative and professional exemptions.
Freehand piercing without the use of forceps or other engineering controls violates the bloodborne pathogens standards. - [1910.1030; 1910.1030(d)(2)(i)]
Advisory Opinion Opinion Letter 2005-23A HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN. PLEASE SEE DISCUSSION OF ROLLOVERS IN FINAL, INVESTMENT ADVICE FIDUCIARIES
Whether a financial consultant hired by a participant in a 404(c) plan to provide investment advice or management is a fiduciary and provides investment advice within the meaning of section 3(21) when he advises the participant to take a withdrawal in order to invest the assets in an investment not available under the plan, and whether the advisor engages in a prohibited transaction if the recommended investment pays an additional fee to the advisor.
Whether each division of a separate account would itself be a "separate account" as defined in section 3(17) of ERISA where the income, gains and losses attributable to the assets of each division, whether or not realized, are credited to or charged against the assets invested in that division and not to the assets of any other division or to the insurer’s general account and without regard to other income, gains or losses of other divisions or the insurer’s general account.
Clarification of "potential atmospheric hazard" when reclassifying a PRCS as a non-permit required confined space. - [1910.146(b); 1910.146(c)(7); 1910.146(c)(7)(i)]
Provides guidance on how to apply the Section 13(a)(15) companionship services exemption in light of the Second Circuit's decision in Coke v. Long Island Care at Home.
Clarification on recording days away from work for follow-up visits to doctor while on restricted-duty job and recovery time to stabilize preexisting condition. - [1904; 1904.5(b)(2)(ii)]
Korleski, Chris
Qualifications for interpreting/classifying chest roentenograms and maintenance of interpretation forms. - [1910.1001; 1910.1001(m)(3); 1910.1001(m)(5); 1910.1020; 1910.1020(d)(1); 1910.1020(d)(1)(i)]
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