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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Unemployment Insurance Program Letter No. 16-20, Change 8 advises states that the deadline for submitting a grant application for additional administrative costs under the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program is extended to February 24, 2023, and that the Department has extended the deadline to expend PUA administrative funds from June 30, 2023 to June 30, 2024.
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter No. 01-23 ensures states are aware of the locality-based salary rates for certain Federal civilian employees.
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter No. 21-22 ensures State Workforce Agencies (SWA) are aware of the Federal military retired pay annual COLA provided by the Department of Defense.
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) 16-20 ensures that states are aware about the social security survivors and old age retirement annuities and the Federal civilian pensions annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) increased for calendar year (CY) 2023, and to provide the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) COLA information.
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 21-08, Change 2 strongly encourages states to review their policies and practices for reemployment and re-skilling Unemployment Insurance (UI) beneficiaries and other unemployed jobseekers, and to inform jobseekers of their potential eligibility for Federal Pell Grants (Pell Grants) and other student aid to meet educational expenses associated with enrollment in an eligible postsecondary program. Further, to remind states that determinations made regarding UI Approved Training requests may be reported as “countable” non-monetary determinations for workload purposes.
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 24-20, Change 1 updates operating instructions, previously issued in TEGL No. 24-20, to State Workforce Agencies or agencies designated by Governors as “Cooperating State Agencies” (CSAs or “states”) regarding the allowability for Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Program funds for employment and case management services under the reversion provisions of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Reauthorization Act of 2015 (TAARA 2015) and the Trade Adjustment Assistance Reform Act of 2002 (TAARA 2002). This Change 1 revises the operating instructions that apply to the use of funds and on the provision of employment and case management services to adversely affected workers covered by petitions filed on and after July 1, 2021. This version of the TAA Program is described herein as “Reversion 2021.”
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 06-22 conveys the Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 initial funding allotments for WOTC and the application requirements for State Workforce Agencies (SWA) based on funding appropriated through a continuing resolution (CR) through December 16, 2022.
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 05-22 announces the availability of up to $325,200 in additional funding for National Farmworker Jobs Program youth funding.
Training and Employment Guidance Letter No. 23-19, Change 1 provides information to grant recipients of the U.S. Department of Labor workforce programs, including states, and provides guidelines for grant recipients to use in developing procedures for ensuring the data submitted for performance reporting are valid and reliable.
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) 16-20, Change 7 announces the opportunity for states to receive up to $61 million for PUA administrative costs in addition to those described in Section 4.b.i. of UIPL No. 28-20, Change 4.
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