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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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There is no requirement for employers to respond to requests for material safety data sheets (MSDS) for old products. - [1910.1200]
The use of Presense Sensing Device Initiation light curtains in regard to Mechanical Power Presses, Hydraulic Power Presses and Hydraulic Welding Presses. - [1910.212]
Four-wheel All Terrain vehicles which lack roll-over protection structures are not presently covered by our construction standards.
Whether the professional development programs offered by Main Hurdman & Cranstoun are employee benefit plans under section 3(1) of ERISA and covered by the reporting and disclosure requirements of part 1 of title I of ERISA.
MSDS and label requirements for an antiknock compound containing EDB, EDC, and tetraethyl lead. - [1910.1200]
Twenty-four hour coverage for emergency telephone numbers. - [1910.1200]
The Gleneagle spectacle with 2-mm thick polycarbonate plano lenses complies with ANSI Z87.1-1968. - [1910.133(b)(2)]
Where an employee who is on-call is free to come and go as he or she pleases, and is also free to engage in personal activities duing periods of idleness, such time is not hours worked. However, if calls are so freqent or the on-call conditions so restrictive that the employee cannot effectively use on-call time for his or her own purposes, the on-call wating time would be counted as hours worked.
Citing 29 CFR 1926.20 and 21 for contractors or subcontractors that do not have Federal contributions - [1926.20; 1926.21]
Whether the Audiotronics Profit Sharing Plan (the Plan) is no longer required to engage, pursuant to section 103(a)(3)(A) of ERISA, an independent qualified public accountant to make an examination and report with respect to the financial statements of the Plan.
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