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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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.
Search Tips
- If you are searching using an acronym, try a second search with the acronym spelled out. For example, if you are searching for guidance related to the Davis-Bacon Act, try searching "Davis-Bacon Act" as well as "DBA".
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Coke Oven Emissions. - [1910.1029]
High-Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) Filters for Vacuum Cleaning. - [1910.1001; 1926.1101]
Interpretation of Standards. - [1910.252]
Training not required if employees not likely to be exposed to or participate in emergency response activities. - [1910.120]
Smoking and occupational exposure to asbestos - [1910.1001(i)(4); 1926.1101(j)(4)]
Whether the Kansas Society of Architects AIA Benefit Program Trust (the KSA Trust) is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of title I of ERISA and whether the KSA Trust is a multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) within the meaning of section 3(40) of that title, and whether preemption provisions of ERISA preclude state regulation of the Trust at least to the extent provided in section 514(b)(6)(A).
Whether the Georgia Independent Automobile Dealers Association Employee Welfare Benefit Plan (the Plan) is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of title I of ERISA and whether the Plan is a multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) within the meaning of section 3(40) of that title and therefore subject to regulation by the Georgia Insurance Commission, and whether preemption provisions of ERISA preclude state regulation of the Plan at least to the extent provided in section 514(b)(6)(A).
Whether the Kansas Dental Association Voluntary Employees’ Beneficiary Association Trust (the KDA Trust) is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of title I of ERISA and whether the KDA Trust is a multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) within the meaning of section 3(40) of that title and whether preemption provisions of ERISA preclude state regulation of the KDA Trust at least to the extent provided in section 514(b)(6)(A).
Construction multi-employer worksites. - [1910.12(c); 1926; 1926.13; 1926.16]
Public sector performing outside employment for a private employer and section 7(p)(1) as applicable to public agencies.
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