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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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.
Search Tips
- 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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Packaging of combustible liquids of 110 gallons or less. - [1910.106(d)(2)]
Whether the payment of pension benefits to a non-employee former spouse is an assignment or alienation of benefits prohibited by ERISA section 206(d)(1) or whether Illinois marital property laws relate to employee benefit plans within the meaning of ERISA section 514(a) and are therefore preempted.
Whether the Michigan Association of Timbermen Employee Benefit Plan Trust (MAT Trust) does not provide insurance, and that Michigan state laws applicable to it are preempted by section 514 of ERISA.
OSHA standards on fixed ladders and landing platforms to be used in underground chambers for pumping stations. - [1910.27]
Definition of the "contact surface" of an abrasive wheel. - [1910.215(d)(3)]
Whether the Baldwin & Lyons, Inc. Employees’ Pension Plan (the Plan) is required to divest of employer securities by December 31, 1979, under section 407(a) (4) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the regulations thereunder issued by the Department of Labor (the Department).
Temporary wiring and temporary lighting in heavy construction. - [1926.401]
The Mechanical Power Press Standard. - [1910.217]
Application of CCPA Title III discharge prohibition.
A class C helmet is acceptable on construction projects for protection against impact and penetration of falling and flying objects but not for electrical hazards. - [1926.100]
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