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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Re-use of blood tube holders. - [1910.1030(d)(2)(vii)(A)]
Fit testing and medical monitoring requirements for wearers of filtering facepiece respirators. - [1910.134(f)(2); 1910.134(e)(1); 1910.134(g)(1)(iii)]
Safety Standards regulating the stability of mobile scaffolds, scissor lifts, and aerial work platforms. - [1926.452(w); 1926.453; 1926.452(w)(6); 1926.452(w)(5); 1926.453(b)(2)(viii); 1926.453(a)(1); 1926.453(a)(2)]
Application of Sec. 206(d) of ERISA with respect to the Mississippi Department of Human Services, Division of Child Support Enforcement.
Application of Sec. 408(e) of ERISA to certain transactions between a plan and various personal trusts and estates sharing a common trustee with the plan.
Whether a "special detail" exception pursuant to section 7(p)(1) of the FLSA applies in a scenario in which law enforcement employees of a public agency voluntarily provide extra off duty contractual security services to separate agency in the same city.
Mobile crews must have prompt access to nearby toilet facilities. - [1926.51(c)(4); 1926.51(c); 1926.51]
Whether the prohibition in PTE 77-4 (42 FR 18732, April 8, 1977) on sales commission payments would apply to commissions paid by a plan to an independent broker who executes the plan’s purchase or sale of shares of open-end investment companies registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 through a securities exchange.
Whether section 3(o) of the FLSA applies to the putting on, taking off, or washing of the protective safety equipment typically worn in the meat packing industry, such as mesh aprons, plastic belly guards, mesh sleeves or plastic arm guards,wrist wraps, mesh gloves, rubber gloves, polar sleeves, rubber boots, shin guards, and weight belts.
Whether a career firefighter/paramedic employee can volunteer to provide similar services to local volunteer fire departments, which are part of the a county's integrated fire service, without having the volunteer time count as compensable hours worked under the FLSA.
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