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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Guidance addressing what a fiduciary needs to consider when evaluating the reasonableness of a services agreement that allows the service provider to retain the float. Also addresses the information that the service provider needs to dsiclose to plan fid
Information Letter to Sherwin Kaplan.
Whether the International Union for the Natural Health, Complementary & Alternative Medicine Professions Health and Welfare Fund is established or maintained under or pursuant to one or more collective bargaining agreements for purposes of section 3(40)(A)(i) of ERISA.
Guidance addressing whether trustees of related multiemployer defined benefit and defined contribution plans are subject to ERISA's fiduciary standards when they amend the plans to modify the formula for allocating employer contributions between the two p
Additional clarification of using ANSI Z358.1 as guidance to comply with 1910.151(c). - [1910.151(c)]
Whether the time an employee is required to remain at his or her residence while on paid sick leave is considered compensable hours worked which must be included in the computation of overtime under the FLSA.
Issuance of "unclassified" citations as a settlement tool. - [2200.100]
Use of aerial lift or scissor lift guardrails as a work or scaffold platform. - [1926.450; 1926.502(d); 1926.451(b); 1926.451(b)(2)(ii); 1926.453(b)(2)(iv); 1926.451(a)(1); 1926.451(a)(6); 1926.451(f); 1926.502(d)(23); 1926.451(g)(1); 1926.452(w)]
Field bolting and welding requirements for steel joist assembly - [1926.757; 1926.757(b); 1926.757(b)(1); 1926.757(b)(2); 1926.757(b)(3); 1926.757(a)(8); 1926.757(c)(1); 1926.757(c)(2); 1926.757(a)(8)(i); 1926.757(a)(8)(ii)]
Whether the Communications Workers of America, Local 1180 Members' Annuity Fund remains a "governmental plan" if it extends eligibility to its trustees, who are Local 1180 officers, and accepts contributions for any trustee whom Local 1180 employs, since the Fund otherwise exclusively covers government employees of NYC and related public employers whose bargaining agreements require them to provide all contributions currently received by the Fund.
Application of the bloodborne pathogens standard to veterinary clinics. - [1910.1030(d)(4)(iii)]
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