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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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 bloodborne pathogens standard to first aid providers at drilling operations. - [1910.1030]
Use of personal protective equipment by electric utility linesmen. - [1910.268; 1910.132]
PSM Standard does not apply to 10,000 pounds of hydrocarbon fuel on site used solely as a fuel for a furnace. - [1910.119]
Various questions on Hazwoper. - [1910.120]
De minimis violation status is accorded to power lasers used in the construction industry. - [1926.54]
Whether purchases of securities issued by the parent company of Citizens First National Bank of New Jersey at the direction of fiduciaries of employee benefit plans for which the Bank serves as trustee would be a prohibited transaction under section 406 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code.
Whether a single-employer, self-funded accident and health benefit program administered by Advanced Administrative Companies is a multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) within the meaning of ERISA section 3(40) and whether such MEWA is an employee benefit plan under section 3(1) of ERISA thus preempting state regulations of the arrangement.
DOL announced that the President had suspended the applicatio of DBA in areas devasted by Hurricanes Andrew and Iniki (Florida, Hawaii & Louisiana)
Bloodborne pathogens standard's costs and necessity. - [1910.1030]
Metal ladder rungs are required to be skid-resistant. - [1926.1053(a)(6)(i)]
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