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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Requirement for instituting engineering and administrative controls for noise. - [1910.95]
Whether the Vantage Healthcare Employee Benefit Plan (the Plan), established by the Vantage Healthcare Corporation of Indiana, which owns manages, leases, and operates nursing homes in various locations, is an employee welfare benefit plan covered by title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and/or whether the Plan is a multiple employer welfare arrangement within the meaning of section 3(40) of ERISA.
Letter to DASHOS regarding reprisals. - [1960]
Laser standards applicable to a surgical laser program.
Whether the purchase of preferred stock of a corporation by a defined benefit pension plan sponsored by that corporation would contravene the prohibited transaction provisions of section 406 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) if such stock is acquired from the estate of the father of a plan fiduciary.
This letter advised that a school district does not need to treat time spent by bus driver employees attending a mandatory 20-hour driver recertification course as compensable worktime under the FLSA, where state law requires the drivers to attend this course every 3 years as a prerequisite for retaining their license to operate school buses.
This opinion letter gave general guidance on the permissibility of tip pool arrangements under the FLSA. In relevant part, the letter advised that "hosts" and "hostesses" may qualify as tipped employees in some circumstances, and that WHD generally considers contributions to a mandatory tip pool that exceed 15 percent of a tipped employee's tips to be unlawful.
HMIS use in meeting the in-plant labeling requirements of the HCS. - [1910.1200(f)]
This letter advised that a municipal government employer must include "State educational incentive supplements" paid to firefighters and law enforcement personnel who fulfill certain educational or training requirements in the employee's regular rate of pay. The letter advised that it is immaterial that the State, and not the municipal governments, is the source of funds for the supplemental payments.
Whether depositary shares of Jaguar plc (a U.K. Corporation) common stock, evidenced by American depositary receipts (ADRs), constitute "qualifying employer securities" under section 407(d)(5) of ERISA if held by the profit-sharing plan for U.S. employees of Jaguar Cars, Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of Jaguar plc).
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