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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Announces the availability of revised Trade Adjustment Assistance Act (TAA) petition forms that must be used starting January 31, 2012. Downloadable and online petition forms currently in use will be rendered obsolete and may not be used as of that date.
PEL for cotton dust when exposure is from cotton fibers used in the manufacture of absorbent glass tubes. - [1910.1043; 1910.1000]
Clarification of OSHA's position on FR Clothing for welders. - [1910.252; 1910.252(b)(3); 1910.132]
Dental office employers with one or more employees must comply with the OSH Act. - [1975.4; 1910.1200; 1910.1030; 1910.132]
Requirements of a third-party evaluator of rigger and signal person qualifications. - [1926.1401; 1926.1428; 1926.1428(a)]
ETA-authored TEN on employment-related transportation options applicable to local employment networks.
The purpose of this document is: 1) to provide successful strategies to the public workforce system for connecting individuals with transportation to jobs and training, and 2) to help businesses access a diverse workforce.
Clarification on when a trestle ladder would be considered a stepladder.
Clarification on when a trestle ladder would be considered a stepladder. - [1926.1053; 1926.1053(b)(13); 1926.1060]
Investigation of the July 27, 2011 Systems-engineered Metal Building Collapse in San Marcos, TX
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