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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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This letter provides guidance on designation of leave; compensatory time off; care of immediate family member; and spouses working for the same employer.
Whether certain collective investment vehicles established by Scudder Trust Company are and would continue to be viewed as pooled investment funds "maintained by a bank or trust company" within the meaning of the statutory exemptions in ERISA section 408(b)(8) and Internal Revenue Code section 4975(d)(8) and PTE 91-38 if the Trust Company retains its parent company to manage the Funds.
Medical surveillance requirement in the Vinyl Chloride Standard 1910.1017. - [1910.1017]
Electrical Workers. - [1910.269]
CPL 02-00-112 [CPL 2.112] - National - Nationwide Quick-Fix Program - 08/02/1996
Unpaid volunteer firefighters who are required to "volunteer" in order to be considered for paid fire fighter positions are not volunteers within the meaning of the FLSA. They are not performing the service for civic, humatarian or charitable reasons.
Clarification of employers' use of floor fans. - [1910.212]
Whether a schedule of "usual and customary" fees, which is used as a basis for determining the dollar amount that will be paid for health claims made under a welfare benefit plan, must be made available for examination and/or furnished by the plan administrator upon the request of a plan participant or beneficiary under ERISA sections 104(b)(2) and 104(b)(4).
This letter provides guidance on the purpose of FMLA.
Use of insulated hand tools. - [1910.335(a)(2)(i)]
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