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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Applicability of the Process Safety Management manufacturing processes involving workplace explosives. - [1910.109; 1910.119]
HHCs as it applies to manufacturing processes involving workplace explosives. - [1910.119]
Eyeglasses with exposed metal parts. - [1910.333]
This letter provides guidance on the payment of health care premiums.
Fall protection and pipe racks. - [1926.502(d)]
Whether proceeds received from the sale of stock from an employee stock ownership plan acquired with a loan which is exempt under section 408(b)(3) may be used to repay the loan if there is no formal pledge of the stock as security for the loan. Whether such action violates the general fiduciary provisions of ERISA.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) Hazard Communication Standard as they apply to veterinary drugs. - [1910.1200]
Whether the proposed purchase and lease-back of a tax-exempt school's land and building by a self-directed Individual Retirement Account (IRA) that is an employee pension benefit plan would result in a prohibited transaction under section 4975 of the Code. Whether the prohibited transaction would result in a deemed distribution from the IRA under section 408(e)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Whether the Labor-Management Cooperation Trust, which was established in accordance with the Labor Management Cooperation Act of 1978 by the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry, Local Union 598, AFL-CIO and the employers that are signatories to the Local 598 Collective Bargaining Agreement, as revised December 1991, is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of Title I of ERISA. Specifically, whether the revised Trust Agreement’s purpose to provide benefits described in section 302 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 falls within the meaning of section 3(1) of Title I of ERISA.
Whether the long-term disability program sponsored by the California Law Enforcement Association (CLEA), a non-profit mutual benefit corporation formed to provide a program of disability benefits to law enforcement personnel in the State of California, is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of Title I of ERISA. Whether CLEA is an employee organization under section 3(4) or an employer group or association under section 3(5).
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