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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Responsibility of each person involved in Class I glovebag removal operations. - [1926.1101]
Whether employee benefit plans established and maintained by Albright Care Services are "church plans" within the meaning of ERISA section 3(33) and therefore exempt from coverage by ERISA section 4(b)(2).
Whether background investigators meet th requirements for the administrative exemption under section 13(a)(1) of the FLSA.
Whether ERISA section 4(b)(3), which excludes from ERISA plans that are maintained solely to comply with state-mandated disability benefits, would apply to a disability benefits program offered by the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in New Jersey to its members for their employees.
Clarification of the Electrical Standard as it applies to flexible power cords on appliances. - [1910.303(a); 1910.305(a)(2)(i); 1910.305(g); 1910.305(g)(1)(iii)(A); 1910.334(a)(2); 1910 Subpart S]
Whether the Miami Beach Fraternal Order of Police Insurance Trust Fund, a health and life insurance arrangement for actively employed or retired police officers of the City of Miami Beach, Florida, is a "governmental plan," as defined in ERISA section 3(32) and, thus, excluded from ERISA coverage by ERISA section 4(b)(1).
Construction Asbestos Standard. - [1910.1001; 1915; 1926.1101]
Annual training required by the occupational exposure to bloodborne pathogen standard. - [1910.1030]
Application of the FLSA to employees of a semi-private club.
The effect of workers' compensation claims on temporary medical removal protection benefits. - [1910.1025]
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