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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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
200 Constitution Ave NW
Washington, DC 20210
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Whether the N&W Employees Credit Union (the Credit Union) is an employee organization within the meaning of section 3(4) of ERISA and whether a prepaid legal services program sponsored by the Credit Union for its members is an employee welfare benefit plan covered by ERISA title I.
Whether the Credit Union is an employee organization within the meaning of section 3(4) of ERISA, and whether the group legal services program is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of ERISA.
Whether the Fund is subject to the ERISA and whether an accountant's opinion is necessary as part of the annual report filed by the Fund. Finally, if the Fund's annual report is required to include an accountant's opinion you request that the Department of Labor (the Department) grant an exemption from that requirement.
Cool-view welding helmets must meet Grade D breathing air requirements; Requirements for standard welding helmets. - [1910.134(i)(1)(i); 1910.252(b)(2)(ii)]
Several questions regarding a non-qualified pension plan (the plan) maintained for milk vendors in the Chicago metropolitan area.
Whether the Pension Plan for Bargaining Unit Employees of Wabush Mines, Pickands Mather & Company, Managing Agent, Arnaud Railway Company and Wabush Lake Railway Company, Limited (the Plan), constitutes an employee pension benefit plan subject to coverage under title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
Horns on construction equipment. - [1926.601; 1926.602]
Whether a group insurance program funded by the individual contributions of the members of an association composed of government employees constitutes an employee benefit plan within the meaning of ERISA title I.
Whether an individual retirement account (IRA) established by Christopher Stone to receive his distribution from his previous employer's tax-qualified retirement plan is subject to title I of ERISA.
Supervised manual fire alarm systems. - [1910.165; 1910.165(a)(1); 1910.165(b); 1910.165(d)]
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