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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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CPL 02-00-088 [CPL 2.88] - National - Information Dissemination System for Ergonomic Inspections and Consultative Visits Resulting in Significant Benefits. - 07/02/1990
Discusses the interaction between disclosure and deductions under MSPA - Outlines that certain transportation costs are for the benefit of the employer
Guidelines for the preparation of warning labels for carbon and graphite electrical products. - [1910.1200]
The letter analyses whether a provider may charge a fee to disabled employees to support training programs. The letter concludes that a provider may charge clients for services that are unrelated to their employment in a work program.
Whether the Employee Stock Purchase Plan provides retirement income or result in a deferral of income to termination of employment or beyond, and would be considered a pension plan within the meaning of section 3(2)(A) of ERISA.
Application of the formaldehyde standard, 1910.1048, to private medical school personnel. - [1910.1048]
The laboratory standard does not apply to a pharmacy operation mixing cytotoxic drugs. - [1910.1450(a)(1)]
Brake drawbar drag requirements for forklifts. - [1910.178(a)(2)]
Whether the Alarm Association of Florida Health and 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 preemption provisions of section 514 of that title preempt state regulation of the Plan.
Whether purchases of stock of the Regis Group Incorporated (Regis) by various self-directed individual retirement accounts for which Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated (Baird), a wholly owned subsidiary of Regis, is the prototype sponsor is prohibited under the prohibited transaction provisions of section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the Code).
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