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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Corrected Tables A and B for 1926 Subpart R, the Steel Erection Standard. - [1926.757(c)(3)]
Guidance concerning the selection of annuity providers in connection with distributions from defined contribution plans. Specifically, the application of specific requirements of Interpretive Bulletin 95-1.
".......under 30 C.F.R. Sections 75. 512, 75.800-3, 75.821, and 75.900-3," "........enforcement of 30 C.F.R. Sections 75.512,…."
Use of body harness verses body belt for fall protection when working from elevated powered industrial truck platforms. - [1910.178]
Fall protection requirements for employees working from a "work bridge" in concrete construction work. - [1926.450(b); 1926.451(g); 1926.451(g)(4)(ii); 1926.701(b)]
Whether the Kaiser-Hill Plans are "pension plans" within the meaning of section 3(2)(A) of ERISA, and, if the Plans should be considered pension plans, whether they are so-called "top hat" plans under ERISA sections 201(2), 301(a)(3), and 401(a)(1).
Concerning the applicability of PTE 92-5, (57 FR 5019, February 11, 1992), to a transfer of a life insurance contract by a participant to his or her employee benefit plan.
This letter provides guidance on the application of the 1,250-hour eligibility test and intermittent leave under the FMLA.
Sharps injury logs are intended to track departments, devices, and/or procedures causing injuries, not injured employees. - [1910.1030; 1910.1030(h)(5)(i)(A); 1910.1030(h)(5)(i)(C)]
Applicability of the confined-space standard to dock-leveler pits. - [1910.146; 1910.146(b); 1910.146(c)(7); 1910.146(c)(7)(i); 1910.146(c)(7)(ii); 1910.146(c)(7)(iii); 1910.146(c)(7)(iv); 1910.147]
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