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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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- If you are searching using an acronym, try a second search with the acronym spelled out. For example, if you are searching for guidance related to the Davis-Bacon Act, try searching "Davis-Bacon Act" as well as "DBA".
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Employee access to medical records. - [1910.1020]
Whether assets held by insurance companies in certain separate accounts that are maintained solely in connection with fixed contractual obligations of an insurance company are not plan assets for purposes of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
Applicability of the noise standard to portable ear muff type radios. - [1910.95]
Whether the Banks of Illinois Insurance Trust, which enables National and state chartered banks and their service corporations in the State of Illinois who are members of three bank trade associations to provide their employees life, health, dental and long-term disability benefits, is an "employee welfare benefit plan" as defined by section 3(1) of ERISA.
Whether the severance benefits provided by Northern States Power Company constitute an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of ERISA and not an employee pension benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(2) of ERISA.
Whether an Investment Bonus Agreement collectively bargained between Eastern Air Lines, Inc. and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, District 100 is not an employee benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(3) of title I of ERISA.
Interpretation on applicable standards for bulk coal handling facility at a marine terminal. - [1917]
Fall restraint systems for employees building scaffolds in a location where the scaffold that is being built provides the only tie-off point. - [1926.451]
Alternatives to safety glass protected by screening for observation windows, where hard deep-cutting abrasives are used. - [1910.94(a)(3)(i)(d)]
If Onion growing operations are exempt from the overtime premium pay requirements pursuant to Section 13(b)(12).
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