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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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 William Lindsay.
Whether a plan fiduciary engages in a breach by accepting, and then returning, contributions to his political campaign from current and prospective service providers to the plan, and recusing himself from decisions relating to those service providers.
Evaluation of scenarios regarding PSM requirements related to normally unoccupied remote facilities and natural gas processing plants (gas plant). - [1910.119; 1910.119(b)]
Request to expand the application of the "de minimis" policy regarding Section 1926.453(b)(2)(iii) and the use of the "Wishbone" fall protection device beyond the parameters described in OSHA's February 2, 2004 letter to Mr. Michael Kurtgis. - [1926.453(b
Frequency of evaluating audiometric testing rooms to meet the specifications in Appendix D of the Occupational Noise standard. - [1910.95(h)(4); 1910.95 App D]
Whether Georgia's Agricultural Commodities Commissions are "agencies" or "instrumentalities" of the State of Georgia so that inclusion of their employees would not adversely affect the status of Georgia's State Health Benefit Plan as a "governmental plan" within the meaning of section 3(32) of ERISA.
This letter discusses whether a municipal employee who performs two different jobs during overtime hours may be paid at time and one half the regular rate in effect when the respective jobs are performed in non-overtime hours.
Use of the European Norms and European Community machinery directive to comply with the 1910.212 "General [guarding] requirements for all machines." - [1910.212; 1910.212(a)(1); 1910.212(a)(3)]
MSDS's must be provided to employees who package/process drugs for distribution into final form if they contain hazardous chemicals. - [1910.1200; 1910.1200(b)(6); 1910.1200(b)(6)(vii); 1910.1200(e)]
Questions regarding the Permit-Required Confined Space standard, 1910.146, and the Grain Handling standard, 1910.272. - [1910.146; 1910.146(c)(2); 1910.272; 1910.272(e)(1)(i); 1910.272(g); 1910.272(g)(3); 1910.272(g)(5)]
Audiometric baseline revisions in employee rehire situations. - [1910.95]
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