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 letter provides guidance on siblings using FMLA leave, as in loco parentis, and the need to provide parental care for a son or daughter 18 years or older.
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 15-24 provides guidance to State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) applicable through FY 2027 and announces the grant allotments for FY 2025 foreign labor certification grants.
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 12-25 provides guidelines for the FY 2025 UI RESEA grants and invites State Workforce Agencies to submit RESEA State Plans.
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 14-24 provides guidelines for the FY 2025 UI RESEA grants and invites State Workforce Agencies to submit RESEA State Plans.
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 13-24 provides instructions to National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) Career Services and Training grantees and Housing Services grantees for the submission of required documents for Program Year (PY) 2025 allotments and performance negotiations. Additionally, Attachment V of this guidance includes application instructions for grantees that wish to apply for additional PY 2025 NFJP Youth Services Grants.
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 12-24 provides WIOA Section 166 Indian and Native American (INA) Program grantees with Comprehensive Services Program (CSP) and Supplemental Youth Services Program (SYSP) funding allotments for Program Year (PY) 2025.
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 11-24 provides information to states and outlying areas on Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Title I Adult, Dislocated Worker, and Youth Activities program allotments for Program Year (PY) 2025; PY 2025 allotments for the Wagner-Peyser Act Employment Service (ES) Program, as required by section 6(b)(5) of the Wagner-Peyser Act, as amended; and the allotments of Workforce Information Grants to states for PY 2025.
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 11-25 transmits the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared from July 1 – September 30, 2025 (fourth quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2025).
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 08-21, Change 1, rescinds Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 08-21.
This Bulletin provides guidance relating to the changes made to the annual funding notice requirements of section 101(f) of ERISA by the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022.
Appendix 1 – Single-employer plan model | Appendix 2 – Multiemployer plan model
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