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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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 Ford Motor Company’s Salaried Income Security Plan is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of ERISA and not an employee pension benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(2) of ERISA.
Whether the Chiropractic Health Plan Trust is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of ERISA. Whether the state chiropractic associations would be "employers" within the meaning of section 3(5) of ERISA in relation to a program of benefits which are among those identified in section 3(1) of ERISA and which is offered to the members of these chiropractic associations?
Whether a pension plan established and maintained by Blind Industries and Services of Maryland (BISM) only for its employees and a plan maintained both by BISM for its employees and by the Maryland Vending Facilities Program, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR), a division of the Maryland Department of Education, for former BISM employees now employed by DVR are governmental plans excluded from coverage by title I of ERISA.
Whether the Eastern Small Business Federation Group Trust is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of ERISA and is covered by title I of ERISA. Whether section 514 of ERISA preempts the provisions of Chapter 676 of the Connecticut General Laws (Conn. Chap. 676) from applying to the Trust.
Medical laboratory is a non-profit corporation solely owned by hospitals in the area. ISection 7(j) does not apply to the employees because they are not deemed to be employed by an "employer engaged in the operation of a hospital.
Whether the proposed wage continuation plans of International Metals & Machines, Inc. and certain of its affiliates constitute a payroll practice within the meaning of 29 C.F.R. §2510.3-1(b)(2) rather than an employee welfare benefit plan described in ERISA section 3(1) and, thus, excluded from ERISA title I coverage.
Requirements that all walking and working surfaces be kept clean, orderly, and in a sanitary condition. - [1910.22]
Wearing of contact lenses while welding. - [1910.133(a)(3)]
Breeding dairy and beef cattles practices performed are within the meaning of Section 3(f). Employees exclusively engaged in such activities during a workweek are exempt from overtime premium pay pursuant to Section 13(b)(12).
Whether the retention by the Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Company of the Vanguard Group to provide certain services to the Trust Company in the Trust Company's capacity as a fiduciary to employee benefits plans is exempt from the prohibitions of section 406 of ERISA and section 4975(c) of the Code by reason of section 408(b)(2) of ERISA and section 4975(d)(2) of the Code. Whether the retention of Vanguard Group by the Trust Company does not constitute an act of self-dealing in violation of section 406(b)(1) of ERISA.
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