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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Marking and proof-testing requirements for special custom-designed lifting accessories. - [1926.251; 1926.251(a); 1926.251(a)(4)]
Use of approved GFCI's that do not have open-neutral protection. - [1926.404(b)(1)(i); 1926.404; 1926.404(b); 1926.404(b)(1)(ii); 1926.449]
Requirements for fall protection when ladder jack scaffolds are used for residential and commercial construction. - [1926.451; 1926.451(g)(1); 1926.451(g)(1)(i); 1926.452; 1926.452(k)(1); 1926.500; 1926.500(a)(2)(i); 1926.501; 1926.501(b); 1926.501(b)(12)
Examines whether certain benefit payments must be included in the regular rate when computing overtime.
Lyme Disease Alert Fact Sheet
Electronic Mail Systems and Bloodborne Pathogens Training requirements. - [1910.1030; 1910.1030(g)(2)(vii)(N); 1910.1030(g)(2)(viii)]
Request for guidance as to the disposition of surplus assets on the termination of the Trust. Specifically, whether, after all outstanding claims for benefits have been satisfied and all surplus attributable to participant contributions has been used for the provision of benefits, the remaining surplus assets may be transferred to a charitable foundation that is not a party in interest in accordance with the terms of the trust document.
Whether a trust company’s receipt of 12b-1 and subtransfer fees from mutual funds, the investment advisers of which are affiliates of the trust company, for services in connection with investment by employee benefit plans in the mutual funds, would violate ERISA when the decision to invest in such funds is made by an employee benefit plan fiduciary or participant who is independent of the trust company and its affiliates.
Requirements for emergency response and planning under the Process Safety Management Standard. - [1910.38(a); 1910.38(c)(3); 1910.119(n); 1910.120(a); 1910.120(q); 1910.120(q)(1); 1910.120(q)(6)(ii); 1910.120(q)(6)(iii)]
Immunizations or inoculations (except tetanus) are recordable when given in response to a workplace injury or illness. - [1904; 1904.7(b)(5)(ii)(B)]
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