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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Whether the Individual Retirement Account (IRA) payroll deduction program adopted by Cascade Natural Gas Corporation (Cascade) is an employee benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(3) of ERISA. Specifically, whether the escrow account set up for the deposit of employee contributions constitutes an employee benefit plan.
Whether under certain circumstances a payroll deduction program for an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) offered by Madison National Bank will be an employee pension benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(2) of ERISA, what constitutes an affiliate of an employer, and when an employer is not considered to have endorsed an IRA program under Department of Labor’s regulation 29 CFR section 2510.3-2(d).
Employees engaged in the retail sale of passenger buses to the ultimate purchasers will come within overtime pay exemption, since such buses come within the definition of "trucks" as used in section 13(b)(10)(A) of the FLSA.
Contract with client who is not eligible for Federal reimbursement, permitting a payroll deduction for the partial reimbursement by the client to that agency. Section 3(m).
Clarification of Fire Protection, Exit Routes, and Hazardous Material Standards. - [1910.38; 1910.157; 1910.38(e); 1910.157(g)(1)]
Employee spends most of his workday operating the grinding mill, and storing the ground shell. When the truck of the contract carrier utilized by the chicken meal processor arrives at establishment, the employee operates automatic loading equipment to load the ground crab shell material. Section 13(b)(1)
The waiter chef brings food order to a table and cooks it on a hibachi grill in front of the customers, while entertaining customers. Waiters take food and drink orders. Tips are split 50/50 between the two.
Whether the Department of Labor would (1) reconsider its Advisory Opinion 82-2A, which stated that the Truman Medical Center Retirement Plan (the Plan) was not a governmental plan within the meaning of section 3(32) of ERISA, (2) not implement that opinion until the Pension Benefit Guaranty completes its reconsideration of its determination that the Plan is not a governmental plan, and/or (3) delay the effective date of those decisions.
Whether an employee benefit plan required by its plan documents to have more than 50 percent of its assets invested in qualifying employer securities, or if the plan’s fiduciary’s duties under section 404 of ERISA require fewer plan assets to be invested in employer securities, the plan will satisfy the requirement of ERISA section 407(d)(6) of ERISA that an employee stock ownership plan must be designed to invest primarily in qualify employer securities.
Clinical instructor and the education coordinator, it is our opinion such employees can qualify for exemption under section 13(a)(I) as engaged in teaching and administrative duties within the meaning of the regulations.
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