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.
Members of the public may petition the Department to modify or withdraw specific guidance documents. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.
Petitions to Modify or Withdraw a DOL guidance document may also be submitted by mail at the address below. Petitions should identify the specific guidance document by name and include your reason(s) for requesting withdrawal or modification.
U.S. Department of Labor
Office of the Executive Secretariat
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Washington, DC 20210
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Whether a frozen profit sharing trust constitutes an “employee pension benefit plan” or “pension plan” under section 3(2).
Whether the bonding provisions of section 412 of ERISA apply to a person who is both a participant in and a co-trustee for a profit-sharing or money purchase pension plan established by a small, closely held professional corporation.
Whether a defined benefit pension plan containing supplemental early retirement benefits satisfied the requirements of section 204(b)(1)(G) of ERISA.
Supplied air and ventilating air requirements. - [1926.800(k)(2)]
Whether the jurisdictional standard of the Labor Management Relations Act (LMRA) will be used to determine if an employer is "engaged in commerce or in an industry affecting commerce" under ERISA and therefore whether the employer’s would be exempt from ERISA coverage.
Requirements for direct drive mechanical power presses. - [1910.211(d)(7); 1910.211(b)(7)]
This letter provides an in-depth discussion on when work surrounding trees is agriculture and when it is not agriculture.
Temporary heating devices on construction sites. - [1926.153(h)(7)]
Whether a program providing severance benefits is a welfare plan under ERISA.
Whether investing the assets of a small pension or profit-sharing plan exclusively in shares of a mutual fund violates the diversification requirement under section 404(a)(1)(C) of ERISA.
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