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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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
Search Tips
- If you are searching using an acronym, try a second search with the acronym spelled out. For example, if you are searching for guidance related to the Davis-Bacon Act, try searching "Davis-Bacon Act" as well as "DBA".
- For more specific results, use quotation marks around phrases.
- For more general results, remove quotation marks to search for each word individually. For example, minimum wage will return all documents that have either the word minimum or the word wage in the description, while “minimum wage” will limit results to those containing that phrase.
Clarification on standard for rigging equipment for material handling - wire rope. - [1926.251(c)(4)(iii)]
Whether loans from a pension plan to employees of the employer who established the plan are prohibited under ERISA.
Whether section 408(c) provides an exemption from section 406's prohibited transaction rules for such fiduciaries, in light of IRS Technical Information Release (TIR 1329) aligning with ERISA's provisions.
FLSA section 7(k) may be use for airport safety officers
Whether the rendering of mere advice by a broker-dealer to a plan makes the broker-dealer an investment adviser or a person exercising discretionary authority or control over plan assets.
Whether a retired pension plan participant may suffer suspension of retirement income payments if they engage in employment or business activity considered competitive with or “otherwise prejudicial” to their former employer.
Request for an exemption from the definition of “employee” for fulltime student employees under ERISA.
Scale guard requirements for forging hammers. - [1910.218(a)(3)(viii)]
Whether prepaid legal service plans fall under the definition of “welfare plans” in section 3(1) or ERISA.
Whether ERISA applies to a pension plan established by the City Fire Department for its employees, specifically regarding continued pension benefits in the event of a natural disaster.
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