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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Whether the Hinds County General Hospital's welfare benefit plans for employees are governmental plans within the meaning of section 3(32) of title I of ERISA.
Whether the payment of performance-based compensation to Alliance Capital Management L.P. by employee benefit plans will result in a violation of section 406(b) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) or section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. This letter supersedes ERISA Opinion No. 89-28A, which contained a misstatement of fact, which had no bearing on the opinion expressed therein.
Interpretation on the application of 1910.120 to clean-up of water-borne releases of hazardous substances. - [1910.120]
Two different design requirements for handrail and scaffolding. - [1926.451(a)(1); 1926.451(g)(4)(vii)]
Whether the Department's regulations at 29 CFR §2550.408b-1 requires that loans be made available to plan participants and beneficiaries who are not "parties in interest'' with respect to the plan.
Whether the United Company Profit-Sharing and Retirement Plan Investment Committee may retain the United Investment Corporation (UIC) as investment manager for the Plan, and that the Plan may pay UIC for such services, without violating sections 404 and 406 of title I of ERISA or section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code.
Whether certain loan transactions will affect the character of the Quanex Corporation Supplemental Benefit Plan under sections 201(2), 301(a)(3), and 401(a)(1) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA" or the "Act").
Whether the payment of performance-based compensation to Alliance Capital Management Corporation by employee benefit plans will result in a violation of section 406 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) or section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
Whether the proposed merger of three multiemployer pension plans sponsored by the Textile Workers Pension Fund would violate sections 403( c)(1) and 404(a)(1) of ERISA and whether it is a prohibited transaction under section 406 of ERISA.
Whether the operation of the Walgreen Co. Irrevocable Grantor Trust causes the Walgreen Co. Supplemental Profit-Sharing Plan to be other than "unfunded" under section 4(b)(5) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
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