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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Orthodontics wires considered as "sharps" under CPL 2-2.69 - [1910.141]
Inspecting and maintaining fire extinguishers. - [1910.157(e)(1); 1910.157(e)(3)]
Regarding labeling requirements order the OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard. - [1910.1200]
Availability of MSDSs on Construction Sites - [1926.59 ; 1910.1200(e)(2); 1910.1200(g)(8)]
Formaldehyde standard and private medical school personnel - [1910.1048]
Application of the HCS MSDS requirements to distributors selling hazardous chemicals to consumers and employers. - [1910.1200]
Whether the Continental Association of Resolute Employers Trust (CARE Trust) is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of title I of ERISA and whether the CARE Trust is a multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) within the meaning of section 3(40) of that title.
Whether the Uihleen Mercy Center's three employee benefit plans are church plans within the meaning of section 3(33) of title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and thereby excluded from the jurisdiction of the Department of Labor (the Department) by section 4(b)(2) of title I of ERISA.
Whether several employee benefit plans for individuals employed at the Gwynedd Mercy College constitute church plans within the meaning of section 3(33) of title I of ERISA and, accordingly, whether the plans are excluded from the requirements of title I of ERISA by section 4(b)(2) thereof.
Public sector employee substitution of workdays under section 7(p)(3) and public agencies, overtime pay, and 207K work period for law enforcement
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