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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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 Hourly Sick Leave Policy of Parisian, Inc. (the Policy) is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of Title I of ERISA or a payroll practice described in Department of Labor regulation section 29 C.F.R. 2510.3-1(b)(2).
Whether section 514(a) of Title I of ERISA preempts the application of the Texas Unclaimed Property Statutes (Tex. Prop. Code Ann. Title 6 (West 1985)), to unclaimed benefits of those participants in the Luby's Cafeterias, Inc. Employees Profit-Sharing and Retirement Trust (the Plan) who cannot be located.
Cotton Dust Standard and CD-ROMs for storing medical and exposure records. - [1910.1043]
OSHA's hazard communication requirements for the wood products you sell. - [1910.1200]
Corrective Change to the Lead in Construction Compliance Directive, CPL 2-2.58. - [1926.62 ; 1910.1025]
Process Safety Management Standard. - [1910.109; 1910.119]
Regulations for Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens. - [1910.1030]
Discusses the 9th circuit court decision Bresgal v Brock that held that forestry workers are covered by MSPA and enjoined the Department from refusing to enforce MSPA for these activities
Process Safety Management of Highly Hazardous Chemicals. - [1910.119]
Fall Protection at residential construction sites. - [1926.501(b)(13); 1910.1200(g)]
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