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that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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This webpage provides information and resources for employers and workers about the rule, including enforcement, and implementing the rule.
This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) requests that states provide the Department of Labor (Department), using Form MA 8-7, information pertaining to state compliance for receipt of emergency administrative grants. Additionally, this UIPL clarifies the benefit offset requirements for collection of overpayments.
This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter provides guidance to states regarding UC flexibilities related to COVID-19, specifically on how states can use the STC program to support reopening the economy.
This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter advises states of appropriate circumstances for assessing a monetary fraud penalty and for assessing interest and other collection costs on benefit overpayments created under the CARES Act (Public Law (Pub. L.) 116-136), as amended; and to provide instructions for circumstances under which a state may waive recovery of overpayments, including limited circumstances for permissible use of "blanket waivers."
These are frequently asked questions regarding the Coronavirus National Interest Exemption
This set of FAQs addresses the Families First Coronavirus Response Act and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act.
The Provider Relief Fund, described in Q14 in FAQs set 44, no longer accepts claims for testing, treatment, or COVID-19 vaccination.
This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) provides states with updated guidance for the PUA program, specifically regarding expanded eligibility provisions authorized under Section 2102(a)(3)(A)(ii)(I)(kk) of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
Revised June 10, 2021, this guidance is intended to help employers and workers not covered by OSHA's COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) to identify COVID-19 exposure risks to workers who are unvaccinated or otherwise at-risk.
Encourages keeping workers at COVID-19 vaccination sites safe by following OSHA’s Bloodborne Pathogens standard to prevent sharps injuries in Spanish.
Encourages keeping workers at COVID-19 vaccination sites safe by following OSHA’s Bloodborne Pathogens standard to prevent sharps injuries.
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