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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Provides information to employers on the need for roll-over protection on roadway compactors and rollers.
OSHA's position on complying with an updated national consensus standard. - [1910.261]
Whether an estate plan would give rise to a prohibited transaction under Code section 4975 if it is designed to use permissible minimum distributions from an IRA to fund a Trust, which is not a plan subject to fiduciary obligations under Title I of ERISA or the Code but is a disqualified person with respect to the IRA under Code section 4975, and where the beneficiary of the Trust is the IRA owner's grandson and Trustee of the Trust is the IRA owner's son who is entitled under applicable state law to receive statutory trustee commissions from the Trust.
Commissions paid to automobile detailers and painters by a dealership.
Alerts the mining industry to the potential for false or elevated methane and carbon monoxide readings caused by curing PVC cement vapors when using handheld gas detectors.
Requirements for rated load tests for new or altered cranes. - [1910.179; 1910.179(b); 1910.179(k)]
Amending OSHA's penalty adjustment factors. - [1903]
Guidance clarifying that travel and visa expenses of H-2B workers under the FLSA are primarily for the benefit of the employer and must be paid by the employer.
OSHA's position on the requirements for TB screening for employees who have a documented allergy to PPD. - [OSH Act of 1970 - Section 5(a)(1)]
Whether use of high-visibility warning garments by construction workers in highway work zones is required. - [1926.200; 1926.200(g)(2); 1926.201; 1926.201(a)]
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