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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Solvents classified as a combustible liquid on the basis of the MSDS. - [1910.1200(d); 1910.1200(g)]
Wiring, Extension Cords and Grounding. - [1926.404(f)(3)(i)]
Secondary wire rope suspension systems. - [1926.451(g)(3)(iv)]
Whether the Armstrong Dependent Care Reimbursement Account, adopted by Armstrong World Industries, Inc. to provide its full-time and part-time employees with dependent care assistance by reimbursing dependent care services freely chosen by employees , is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of ERISA.
What are the appropriate actions to be taken by plan administrators under Title I of ERISA when presented with requests for recovery of mistaken primary payments made by Medicare under the Medicare Secondary Payer provisions. Whether medical providers or plan participants who have been paid for the same services by both Medicare and employee benefit plans, or who have otherwise misled plan fiduciaries, could be held liable as knowing participants in any fiduciary breach resulting from such actions.
Employee exposure to hazardous chemicals while working around small sensors. - [1910.1200]
Enforcement of ventilation requirements for welding operations. - [1910.252(c)]
Unit dose syringes. - [1910.1030]
In preparing an annual report for a defined benefit pension plan (Plan) subject to Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), what is the proper disclosure of information relating to assets held in an insurance company separate account established pursuant to a specific group annuity contract to provide benefit payments under the Plan. Specifically, what are the plan's annual reporting requirements with respect to the plan's statement of assets and liabilities, the Schedule A for the Contract, and the plan's Schedule B.
All electrical equipment must be approved. - [1910.399]
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