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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Whether the receipt of fees by Aetna Life Insurance and Annuity Company, an indirect subsidiary of Aetna Insurance Company, Inc., from unrelated mutual funds for recordkeeping and other services in connection with investments by employee benefit plans in the unrelated funds violates ERISA section 406(b)(3).
Whether the payment of certain 12b-1 or subtransfer agent fees by a mutual fund in which an employee pension benefit plan has invested to Frost National Bank, serving as the plan's trustee, would violate ERISA sections 406(b)(1) and 406(b)(3).
New methodology for determining health & welfare fringe benefits. Guidance explains the creation of wage determinations that are "odd" and "even" number and two different rates for H&W for SCA contracts
1910.119 does not apply to public displays of flame effects. - [1910.119]
Requirements for labeling portable fire extinguishers. - [1910.1200]
Clarification of the definition of a hazardous chemical and the requirements for Material Safety Data Sheets. - [1910.1200]
Permissible Exposure Limits for Nuisance dust. - [1910; 1910.134; 1910.1000]
Electrical standards and the application to electrically-powered medical devices. - [1910 Subpart S]
Introduction of electrical welding equipment into a non-permit confined space. - [1910.146; 1910.252; 1910.252(a)(4)(i); 1910.252(b)(4)(i); 1910.252(b)(4)(vii); 1910.252(c)(4); 1910.252(c)(9); 1910.252(c)(10); 1910 Subpart Q]
Coverage of Stored Flammables Under the Process Safety Management Standard. - [1910.119(a)(1)(ii)(B); 1926.64(a)(1)(ii)(B); 1910.106]
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