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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Request for guidance concerning the application of section 9345(a)(3) of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 to the proposed implementation of a provision in the Butler Manufacturing Company's stock bonus plan permitting participants to diversify their accounts in investments other than the Company's common stock. The stock bonus plan and a defined benefit plan together make up a floor-offset arrangement established before December 17, 1987.
Vehicle-mounted elevating and rotating work platforms standard. - [1910]
Powered platforms permanently dedicated for building maintenance standard. - [1910.66]
Information Letter to Cary Hammond, Esq.
Guidance regarding DOL's 03/13/97 Federal Register announcement in which we requested public comments on a proposed enforcement policy for annual reports of multiemployer welfare plans. Under the proposal, the department would not reject the annual report of a multiemployer welfare plan solely because the accountant's opinion accompanying the report was qualified or adverse due to a failure to account and report for postretirement benefit obligations in accordance with the AICPA Statement of Position 92-6. To allow the department enough time to consider public comments on the proposal, the announcement also provided that we will not reject 1996 and 1997 plan year annual reports due to such qualified or adverse accountant's opinions.
Whether the proposed decision by the A.T. & S.F. Employees Benefit Association to serve as a "point-of-service" provider of health care services under a managed care program sponsored by the Railroad Employees National Health Care Plan effects the status of the Association and the health benefit program the Association sponsors for its own members under ERISA.
Roll-over protective structures for agricultural wheeled tractors. - [1928.51]
Service workers in the heating, plumbing and air-conditioning industries. - [1910; 1910.12; 1926.13]
Means of Egress. - [1910]
This letter is under review. This letter provides guidance on intermittent leave; and the employer's notification requirements.
OSHA's standard for exposure to bloodborne pathogens. - [1910.1030]
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