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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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.
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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.
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
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 10-23, Change 1, rescinds TEGL No. 10-23.
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 08-24, Change 1, conveys additional Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) funding allotments and application requirements for State Workforce Agencies (SWA), based on funding appropriated through a second continuing resolution (CR#2) through March 14, 2025. The rest of Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 08-24 remains the same.
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 10-25 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, 2025 (third quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2025).
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 10-24 provides guidance to states and other Employment and Training Administration (ETA) federal assistance award recipients and subrecipients on the limitation on salary and bonus payments that can be made using funds appropriated to ETA.
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 18-16, Change 2, clarifies program eligibility for the National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP)authorized under Section 167 of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA).
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 20-21, Change 2 informs states that applications for additional scenarios for blanket waivers of recoveries of established overpayments under Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 20-21, Change 1, will no longer be accepted as of the publication date of this UIPL.
This Bulletin announces a temporary enforcement policy under ERISA section 404(a) applicable to small retirement benefit payments owed to missing participants or beneficiaries that a responsible plan fiduciary voluntarily decides to pay over to a state unclaimed property fund from an ongoing defined contribution or defined benefit pension plan.
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 11-23, Change 2 advises states that to remain eligible for participation in NIDVO and have the U.S. Department of Labor (Department) directly cover at least two years of transaction costs subject to funding availability, states must implement one or both of the NIDVO services no later than December 31, 2025. To successfully deploy prior to this deadline, as described in more detail below, a state should begin the implementation process no later than October 20, 2025.
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