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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Flat fee payments for cleaning or reconditioning used cars which are paid without regard to the value of the service performed do not represent "commissions on goods or services" for the purposes of section 7(i). Employees subjected to overtime under section 7(a).
Whether the Sisters of Mercy Short Term Disability Plan, the Sisters of Mercy Dental Plan, and the Sisters of Mercy Health Care Plan qualify for the limited exemption from certain annual reporting requirements of ERISA provided by 29 CFR §2520.104-44.
Travel time and premium pay received. sections 778.201 and 778.206, section 7(e)(7) that extra compensation provided by a premium rate paid "in pursuance of an applicable employment contract or collective-bargaining agreement for work outside of hours established in good faith by the contract or agreement.
Determining whether recruiters specialized in functional area such as insurance, accouning, finance and data processing meets 13(a)(l) exemption.
Whether an employer would not be considered to establish or maintain an "employee pension benefit plan" within the meaning of section 3(2) of title I of ERISA by virtue of having taken certain actions related to Equitable's Group IRA solely to facilitate their employees’ participation in Equitable's Group IRA and all the criteria contained in regulation 29 C.F.R. §2510.3-2(d) and Opinion 81-80A are met.
Clarification of the classification of the aquaculture industries for OSHA enforcement purposes. - [1928]
The application of the offset rule in the suspension of benefits regulation issued by the Department of Labor under section 203(a)(3)(B) of ERISA to situations involving the Plasterers and Cement Masons Local 109 Pension Fund.
Whether the provision of investment management services by Krehbiel & Hubbard, Inc., the provision of trustee services by Krehbiel and Hubbard and the provision of custodial and temporary investment services by the Custodian would be exempt from the prohibitions of section 406(a) of ERISA under section 408(b)(2). Whether the initial appointment of Krehbiel & Hubbard, Inc. as investment manager of the Master Trust and Hubbard and Krehbiel as trustees of the Master Trust by independent plan fiduciaries pursuant to the Joinder Agreement and the adoption of the Master Trust would not cause Hubbard, Krehbiel, and Krehbiel & Hubbard, Inc. to violate sections 406(b)(l) or 406(b)(2). Whether the provision of services in itself by Krehbiel & Hubbard, Inc. and Krehbiel and Hubbard under the collective investment program will result in acts described in section 406(b)(1) of ERISA. Whether the temporary investment of Master Trust assets in the Custodian's Collective Investment Plan for Daily Interest at the direction of Krehbiel & Hubbard, Inc. is exempted under section 408(b)(8). Whether the temporary investment of Master Trust assets in deposits of the Custodian at the direction of Krehbiel & Hubbard, Inc. is exempted under section 408(b)(4).
Whether the Realtors Group Insurance Trust (REGIT) is an "employee welfare benefit plan" which is "maintained by an employer" within the meaning of sections 3(1) and 3(5) of ERISA.
The seaman services are not rendered primarily as an aid in the operation of the vessel as a means of transportation. The crew of the vessel in question is not exempt under section 13(a)(12)
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