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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Information Letter to Charles V. Stewart.
Whether, in the context of a collectively bargained multiemployer plan, plan expenses paid by a contributing employer and not reimbursed by the plan are required to be reported on the Schedule C (Service Provider Information) of the Form 5500 Annual Return/Report of Employee Benefit Plan (Form 5500).
Provides guidance to staff for adjudicating survivors' claims in certain circumstances
Provides MSHA recommendations on the use of fall protection under 30 C.F.R. §§ 77.1710(g) and (h) consisting of safety belts and lines and lifejackets when persons are working on barges at river loading facilities where coal is handled or loaded.
The purpose of this document is to announce the release and availability of an ETA quantitative evaluation report: Use of One-Stops by Social Security Disability Beneficiaries in Four States Implementing Disability Program Navigator (DPN) Initiatives.
Various interpretation questions regarding 1926.651(c).
Can a person who qualifies as a "competent" person under one section of support P also qualify as a competent designer of structural ramps under 1926.651(c)(1)(i)?. - [1926.650(b); 1926.651(c)(1)(i); 1926.652(b); 1926.652(b)(2); 1926.652(b)(4)]
FAQs providing clarifications about outpatient benefit sub-classifications under MHPAEA.
Additional guidance regarding whether employees who do not have a biological or legal relationship with a child may take FMLA leave for birth, bonding, and to care for the child.
To inform Office of Apprenticeship (OA), State Apprenticeship Agency staff (SAA), Registered Apprenticeship program sponsors and other Registered Apprenticeship partners as to the definition and provisions for the issuance of interim credentials.
Notifies mine operators of new MSHA procedures for possible voiding of operator respirable dust samples taken to fulfill the sampling requirements of 30 C.F.R. Part 70.
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