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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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 on hot therapy as first aid. - [1904.7; 1904.7(a); 1904.7(b)(5)(ii)]
Instructs the State Workforce Agencies or agencies designated by Governors as "Cooperating State Agencies" (CSAs) (also jointly referred to as "states") to operate the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program under the 2002 Amendments, starting February
CPL 02-01-050 - National - 29 CFR Part 1910, Subpart I, Enforcement Guidance for Personal Protective Equipment in General Industry - 02/10/2011 - PDF
Federal requirements for the anchorages and connectors in personal fall arrest systems.
Federal requirements for the anchorages and connectors in personal fall arrest systems. - [1926.502(d)]
Whether the Depawix Health Resources, Inc. employee welfare benefit plan and the Green Cross Managed Health System health benefits program are multiple employer welfare arrangements within the meaning of ERISA section 3(40), and whether ERISA section 514(a) precludes the State of Florida from applying its insurance laws and regulations to those entities and programs, or to any persons who sell or market them in Florida.
Whether ERISA section 406(b) violations occur if an investment manager for various pension plans executes securities transactions with certain brokerage firms that have a remote relationship to the investment manager through their corporate parent, and related issues concerning the applicability of PTE 84-14, as amended (QPAM).
Whether a prohibited transaction under Code section 4975(c)(1) occurs if an individual causes his IRA to acquire a promissory note from a third-party bank where he and his wife are obligors on the note.
Whether a welfare benefit plan may provide wellness benefits to current plan participants by using demutualization proceeds attributable to premium payments made by former participants for an insurance contract that gave rise to the plan's receipt of the proceeds.
Whether a domestic relations order issued under tribal law by a Family Court of the Navajo Nation would be a "judgment, decree, or order…made pursuant to State domestic relations law," for purposes of the QDRO provisions in ERISA section 206(d)(3).
The SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (SECURE Act 2.0) amended ERISA to provide that a domestic relations order made pursuant to Tribal domestic relations law is eligible to be considered for qualification under the QDRO provisions in ERISA section 206(d)(3) and Internal Revenue Code section 401(a)(13). The SECURE Act 2.0 amendments apply to domestic relations orders received by plan administrators after December 31, 2022, including any such order which is submitted for reconsideration after such date. Advisory Opinion 2011-03A addressed the relevant statutory provisions before the SECURE Act 2.0 amendments, and accordingly, it is out of date and should not be relied on as stating the Department’s view of the law with respect to domestic relations orders received by plan administrators after December 31, 2022.
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