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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Whether there is a conflict between provisions in 1926.451 regarding the use of screening. - [1926.451; 1926.451(a); 1926.451(g); 1926.451(g)(1); 1926.451(g)(2); 1926.451(g)(2)(iii); 1926.451(g)(4); 1926.451(g)(4)(ix); 1926.451(g)(4)(v); 1926.451(g)(4)(vi
Requirements for leaving construction equipment and powder-actuated tools unattended on a construction building site; impalement protection from reinforcing steel for masonry workers on a scaffold. - [1910.178(m)(5); 1910.178(m)(5)(ii); 1910.178(m)(5)(iii
Whether a registered representative of a broker-dealer who provides brokerage services to the customers of a credit union may also provide brokerage services to the credit union's participant-directed 401(k) plan, provided that the representative does not provide investment advisory or management services to the plan.
Whether in-kind investments in a bank collective investment fund are covered by ERISA section 408(b)(8), if the stated conditions are met.
Under Subpart M, whether a lanyard may be connected to another lanyard by a snaphook, provided the potential fall distance is six feet or less. - [1926.500(b); 1926.502(d)(6)]
When fees received by a bank or an affiliate, in connection with investments in certain mutual funds by IRAs or other qualified retirement plans, are offset against management fees charged by the bank to the plans, would the receipt and offset avoid prohibited transactions under Code section 4975(c)(1)(E) or (F)?
Applicability of Regulation, Refiling, Adv. Timeframes, PWDs
Whether the status of the Georgia State Health Benefit Plan as a "governmental plan" within the meaning of section 3(32) of ERISA would be adversely affected if it were extended to cover the employees of certain federally qualified health centers in the State of Georgia.
Guidance, developed by the Department of Labor and the SEC, for pension plan fiduciaries on selecting and monitoring pension consultants.
The fact sheet provides questions to assist plan fiduciaries in evaluating the objectivity of the recommendations provided, or to be provided, by a pension consultant.
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