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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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 health benefit plans of eight institutions of the Sisters of St. Francis of the Perpetual Adoration are “church plans” within the meaning of ERISA section 3(33) and are thus excluded from ERISA Title I requirements by section 4(b)(2).
What type of powered industrial truck can be used in an aluminum powder production building where dust levels may be in an explosive concentration. - [1910.178]
Whether the status of the California State Teachers' Retirement System as a “governmental plan” within the meaning of ERISA sections 3(32) and 4(b)(1) would be adversely affected by accepting contributions pursuant to state law from a charter school’s operation where contributions were made on behalf of its employees for the limited period that the school's charter was in effect and were made so the school’s employees may participate in CSTRS for that same period.
Whether benefit arrangements for employees of the Archmere Academy, Inc., an institution of the Canons Regular of Premontre a/k/a the Norbertine Fathers, are “church plans” within the meaning of ERISA section 3(33).
Whether the Connecticut Labor Management Cooperation Committee Trust Fund is an “employee welfare benefit plan” within the meaning of ERISA section 3(1).
Compliance with medical surveillance requirements for lead exposure during hazardous waste site operations. - [1926.62 ]
Variance request. - [1910.107; 1910.107(h); 1910.107(h)(2); 1910.107(h)(6); 1910.107(h)(8); 1910.399]
Request for interpretation of Hazard Communication Standard (HCS). - [1910.1200]
Clarification on the time allowed for completion of the initial process hazard analysis (PHA) as it may apply to a hypothetical case involving four different work sites of an employer. - [1910.119]
PRCS interpretation concerning a hydropower dam's 22 foot diameter sluice tunnel. - [1910.146]
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