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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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- If you are searching using an acronym, try a second search with the acronym spelled out. For example, if you are searching for guidance related to the Davis-Bacon Act, try searching "Davis-Bacon Act" as well as "DBA".
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Whether students volunteering to bag groceries for tips at a commercial for-profit supermarket would be considered employees under the FLSA.
Electrical standard requirements concerning covers for electrical pull boxes, junction boxes, and fittings. - [1926.405; 1926.405(b)(2); 1926.405(b)(3); 1926.405(b)(3)(ii); 1926.405(j)(1)(i)]
Considerations for using a continuous-climb fixed ladder on a steel stack instead of ladder cages and platforms. - [1910.27(d)(2); 1910.27(d)(5)]
Whether two UC pension plans adversely affect exclusion from Title I of ERISA as "governmental plans" by awarding service credits and transferring account balances connected with about two years when UC San Francisco Medical Center transferred a group of employees, now reemployed by the Medical Center and again participating in UC plans, to employment with the Medical Center's now-terminated, private sector joint venture with Stanford University and to coverage by the joint venture's private sector pension plans.
Inspection and maintenance requirements for compressed natural gas storage cylinders; use of updated Compressed Gas Association pamphlets for guidance. - [1910.101; 1910.101(a)]
Guidance on the obligations of a fiduciary under ERISA sections 404(a) and 408(b)(3) of ERISA in connection with the refinancing of an exempt ESOP loan.
Use of ANSI C2-1997 as guidance for protecting employees working near insulated shielded conductors. - [1910.269(a)(1); 1910.269(u)(4); 1910.269(u)(5); 1910.269(v)(4); 1910.269(v)(5); 1910.303(g)(2); 1910.303(h)(2); 1910.335(a)(2)(ii); 1910.333]
HAZWOPER safety and health plan requirements for Phase I and Phase II environmental assessments. - [1910.120(b)(4); 1910.120(b)(4)(ii); 1910.120(d); 1910.120; 1926.21(b)(2)]
HAZWOPER medical examinations must be offered at a reasonable time and without cost to the employee. - [1910.120(f)(5); 1910.120]
Respiratory protection, medical surveillance, and training requirements under HAZWOPER. - [1910.134(e); 1910.134(f); 1910.134; 1910.120; 1910.120(q)(6)(i); 1910.120(q)(6)(ii); 1910.120(q)(8)]
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