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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Preparing a Material Safety Data Sheet under the trade secret provisions of the Hazard Communication Standard. - [1910.1200]
Response to request for variance from 1910.242(b). - [1910.242(b)]
Whether fiduciaries of a plan can lawfully rely upon a plan provision to the extent it would purport to establish a trustee's term of appointment as lifetime under section 404(a)(1)(D) of ERISA which requires fiduciaries to act in accordance with the plan documents and instruments, insofar as they are consistent with titles I and IV of ERISA.
Examination of a proposed payment plan for local delivery drivers or helpers section 13(b)(11) and recordkeeping requirements.
OSHA standards for foot protection. - [1910.136]
Inspection procedures for the Hazard Communication Standard. - [1910.1200]
Whether certain arrangement involving the transfer of funds by the Pension Plan to the Welfare Plan would be prohibited under section 406 of ERISA, and whether the provision of services by the Pension Plan to the Welfare Plan under the arrangement described would be exempt from the prohibitions of ERISA section 406(a) and 406(b)(2) if the conditions of PTE 76-1 and PTE 77-10 are met.
Facial hair in the face sealing area is unacceptable. - [1910.134(g)(1)(i); 1910.134(g)(1)(ii); 1910.134(g)(1)(iii)]
Application of the Hazard Communication standard to gray and ductile iron castings. - [1910.134]
Interpretation of application of 1910.1020 to Federal agencies. - [1910.1020]
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