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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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 Screen Actors Guild, Inc. (SAG) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) Industry Advancement and Cooperative Fund provides benefits to its participants and beneficiaries and is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of Title I of ERISA.
This letter provides guidance on the effective date of FMLA for employers with CBA's.
Whether PTE 80-26 is applicable to a loan to a plan which is used solely for the payment of benefits to a beneficiary of such plan in accordance with the terms of a QDRO, provided all of the other conditions of the exemption are met.
OSHA's policy for inspections related to the Process Safety Management standard. - [1910.119]
Process Safety Management - Threshold quantity is determined on the amount of HHC in the process. - [1910.119]
Clarification of electric power generators, transmission and distribution standard. - [1910.269]
The coverage of household products in a small group home. - [1910.1200]
Whether New York Labor Law section 193 (McKinney 1986) (Section 193) is preempted by section 514(a) of Title I of ERISA to the extent that Section 193 requires employee benefit plans covered by Title I of ERISA to secure written authorization for employee elective deferrals from their wages.
Order of testing for permit spaces. - [1910.146]
Whether the Air Line Pilots Association, International Group Loss of License Disability Income and the ALPA Group Extended Total Disability Income Insurance Plan are "employee welfare benefit plans" within the meaning of section 3(1) of ERISA.
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