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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Clarification of a pre-existing injury or illness and recordable events - [1904.5; 1904.7]
Clarification of Multiple Business Establishments and Covered Employees - [1904.30]
Strengthen and improves proposed decision and orders in instances where the party opposing entitlement has submitted medical evidence subsequent to the issuance of an SSAE that recommended an award of benefits
Set of FAQs providing instructions on how an employer is to demonstrate that it notified and considered laid-off U.S. workers for the job opportunity listed on the ETA Form 9089.
Informs the mining industry of potential alternatives when inclement weather renders satellite linked Global Position System (GPS) surveying equipment data collection slow or inoperable.
A tool to help workers and physicians / health care providers understand basics of asthma, occupational asthma, and strategies to make a diagnosis and manage the clinical case.
Answers to FAQs regarding the Section 503 regs
Answers to FAQs regarding the VEVRAA regs
prevent workers from being injured or killed while working on communication towers
Employees who work for entities engaged in the manufacture, processing, packing, transporting, distribution, reception, holding, or importation of food are protected from retaliation for reporting alleged violations of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
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