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.
The Department and its agencies issue guidance to provide clarifying information and technical assistance to the public on existing statutory and regulatory rights and obligations, inform the regulated community about best practices, and provide other useful information. The contents of these documents do not have the force and effect of law and are not meant to bind the public in any way, except as authorized by law or incorporated into a contract, cooperative agreement, or grant.
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This Change 1 to the Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 06-20 conveys the remaining balance for WOTC and explains application requirements for State Workforce Agencies (SWA) based on funding appropriated for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 through September 30, 2022. Additionally, this TEGL announces 12 states selected to receive additional FY 2021 backlog funding and provides instructions to those states on how to proceed. The remainder of TEGL No. 06-20 remains the same.
This Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) provides updated procedural guidance to state workforce agencies (SWA) on the WOTC certification process. This TEGL and the materials and forms it discusses supersede the guidance outlined in the Third Edition of Employment and Training Administration (ETA) Handbook No. 408, published in November 2002, and its August 2009 Addendum.
This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter provides states with instructions for implementing the recent statutory changes to the emergency unemployment relief for state and local governmental entities, certain nonprofit organizations, and federally-recognized Indian Tribes provided in ARPA, Public Law (Pub. L.) 117-2, which amends Section 903(i) of the Social Security Act (SSA) (42 U.S.C. § 1103(i)).
This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter provides guidance about the changes to the PEUC program authorized by Section 9016 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA), Public Law (Pub. L.) 117-2.
This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) provides guidance about the extension of the FPUC and the MEUC program authorized by Section 9013 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, Public Law (Pub. L.) 117-2.
Letter of Interpretation regarding the recordkeeping regulation contained in 29 CFR Part 1904 – Recording and Reporting Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Specifically, the letter clarifies whether two related reportable events under 29 CFR 1904.39, “Reporting fatalities, hospitalizations, amputations, and losses of an eye,” should each be cited for the purposes of OSHA recordkeeping, or whether a company may report only the initial event.
The Unemployment Insurance Program Letter transmits the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared from April 1- June 30, 2021, (third quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2021).
This Unemployment Insurance Program Letter advises states of the enactment of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA or Act) (Pub. L. 117-2), specifically Title IX, Subtitle A, Crisis Support for Unemployed Workers, on March 11, 2021, and provides an overview and instructions for implementing ARPA's UI-related provisions.
Statement on enforcement of final rules on ESG Investments and Proxy Voting by Employee Benefit Plans.
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.
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