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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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CPL 02-02-006 [CPL 2-2.6 CH-1] - National - Removal of Obsolete Sections - 06/03/1985
Criteria for final medical determinations under medical removal protection benefits of the lead standard. - [1910.1025]
Method for exposure compliance determination for substances regulated under Subpart Z. - [1910 Subpart Z]
Clarification of employment options for employees that fall under the medical removal protection benefits of the lead standard. - [1910.1025]
Whether the Express-News Federal Credit Union (the Credit Union) Group Legal Services Plan, which provides prepaid legal services to member of the Credit Union, is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of title I of ERISA.
Procurement procedures for purchase of personal protective equipment by Federal agencies. - [1960.8]
Proposed payment plan for employees engaged to wait.
Whether the UFT Welfare Fund Prescription Drug Plan (the Drug Plan) is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of ERISA, and covered by title I of ERISA and the effect of certain provisions of ERISA, or is a governmental plan within the meaning of section 3(32) of ERISA and therefore exempt from coverage under title I?
Whether a fiduciary who receives full-time pay from an employer association acting on behalf of a group of employers as a sponsor of an employee benefit plan, where employees of the contributing employers are participants in the plan, would be precluded under section 408(c)(2) from receiving compensation from a plan for his services as trustee.
Whether the proposed merger of the Retirement Plan and the Hourly Plan would permit these plans to be treated as a single continuing plan for the purpose of applying ERISA sections 407(a)(2) and 407(a)(3) so that the Merged Plan will be deemed to satisfy the holding and acquisition rules of those provisions if the fair market value of the aggregate shares of qualifying employer securities in the Retirement Plan and the Hourly Plan respectively as of any date after 1974 was 10 percent or less of the fair market value of the aggregate assets of each plan.
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