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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Tennessee's fire protection standard. - [1910.156(a)(2)]
Whether under certain circumstances an individual retirement account (IRA) payroll deduction program instituted by a securities broker (Employer) for the Employer’s own employees will constitute an employee pension plan within the meaning of section 3(2) of title I of ERISA if the Employer waives certain fees that it usually charges members of the public (non-employees) enrolling in similar IRAs offered by the employer.
Whether the Individual Retirement Annuity (IRA) payroll deduction program that Farmers and Traders Life Insurance Company (the Company) offers its home office employees constitutes an employee pension benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(2) of title I of ERISA if the Company pays towards the premium an amount equal to the sales commission that the Company would pay an agent who sold an similar annuity.
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Whether the Individual Retirement Account (IRA) payroll deduction program the Colorado National Bank of Denver (CNB) proposes to offer employees of employers not affiliated with CNB is an employee pension benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(2) of title I of ERISA.
Whether the Easco Corporation Health Benefit Plan, with Easco providing for a self-funded arrangement for benefits not in excess of a specified amount and Aetna Life Insurance Company paying benefits in excess of such amounts under a group insurance policy, is an employee welfare benefit plan covered by title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
Employees do tilling, cultivating, and harvesting fruit and vegetables, the farm operates a retail farm market. Agriculture or irrigation section 13(b)(12)
Where the PBGC appointed itself trustee of the Inpak, Inc. Pension Plan effective March 31, 1980, whether the administrator of the Plan is required to comply with the following reporting and disclosure requirements of ERISA for any year subsequent to the plan year ended March 31, 1980: (1) preparation and filing of an annual return/report (Form 5500 series), including any schedules, financial statements and accounting and/or actuarial opinions required to be appended thereto; (2) preparation and distribution of summary annual reports to participants; and (3)preparation and distribution of summary plan descriptions to participants and filing a copy of the summary plan description with the Secretary of Labor.
Whether the payment of finder fees by the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society (PSFS) to investment brokerage firms which refer an individual to PSFS for the establishment of a PSFS IRA would not be a prohibited transaction under section 4975(c)(1) of the Code (or section 406 of ERISA).
Whether Fireside Thrift Co., an industrial loan company, is a "bank or similar financial institution" within the meaning of section 408(b)(4) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA").
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