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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Hazardous waste operations and emergency response lapsed refresher training requirements. - [1910.120]
Iron oxides as used in pigment coloring operations. - [1910.1200(d)(1)]
Exposures to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB's) in lighting equipment. - [1910.1000]
Navy gas free engineering program and related failure to abate citation. - [1915.7; 1915.14]
Whether the reimbursement of Allied-Signal Inc. (ASI) by the ASI- sponsored Master Trust Plans for the direct expenses incurred by ASI in providing investment management services to such plans would not constitute a prohibited transaction under section 406 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
President Clinton revoked former President Bush's revocation of DBA.
Extra compensation besides the salary for nonexempt undercover work would not, by itself, defeat an otherwise applicable exemption. Were the employee to spend considerable amounts of time in nonexempt undercover work, the primary duty test may not be met for the exemption.
Whether Pittsburgh Mercy Health System, Inc. employee benefit plans constitute church plans within the meaning of section 3(33) of Title I of ERISA and, accordingly, whether they are excluded from the requirements of Title I of ERISA by section 4(b)(2) thereof.
Whether Section 5 of Puerto Rico Act No. 17 of April 17, 1931, as amended, (P.R. Act 17) is preempted under section 514(a) of Title I of ERISA to the extent Section 5 prohibits payroll deductions for the purposes of funding employee benefit plans covered by Title I of ERISA.
Whether certain employee benefit plans for individuals whose employment is with the Georgia Baptist Medical Center, NewtonHouse Nursing Home, and Harvest Heights Nursing Home, which are collectively known as the Georgia Baptist Health Care System, constitute church plans within the meaning of section 3(33) of Title I of ERISA, and, accordingly, whether the plans may be excluded from the requirements of Title I of ERISA by section 4(b)(2).
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