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.
OMB’s Final Bulletin for Agency Good Guidance Practices establishes policies and procedures for the development, issuance, and use of significant guidance documents by Executive Branch departments, including requiring that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor. Petitions should identify the specific guidance document by name and include your reason(s) for the request.
On January 20, 2021, President Biden issued the “Executive Order on Revocation of Certain Executive Orders Concerning Federal Regulation.” In response, the Department issued a final rule January 27, 2021 to rescind its August 28, 2020 rule on guidance documents.
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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. 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.
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.
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 11-19, Change 2, supersedes Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 11-19, Change 1, published May 10, 2023, and rescinds TEGL 03-17 WIOA Annual Performance Report Submission, published September 12, 2017, developed jointly by the U.S. Departments of Labor and Education (the Departments). Through this updated guidance, the Departments:
- Revise the negotiations process and requirements to incorporate changes made in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Effectiveness in Serving Employers Performance Indicator final rule (89 FR 13814 (Feb. 23, 2024)) (ESE final rule). This final rule, which took effect March 25, 2024, defines the Effectiveness in Serving Employers primary indicator of performance (ESE), as required by section 116(b)(2)(A)(i)(VI) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), as Retention with the Same Employer. The ESE final rule requires states to report the indicator as a shared indicator across the six WIOA core programs.
- Include requirements for the annual performance report submission requirements to encompass all requirements in TEGL 03-17.
- Clarify the standard for meeting requirements for submission of Eligible Training Provider results.
- Clarify the standard for meeting requirements for local area performance negotiations.
This guidance also continues to delineate the process for negotiating levels of performance, as required by section 116(b)(3)(A)(iv) of WIOA; the process for assessing state performance; and explains the two instances in which a state may be sanctioned (including the imposition of those sanctions), namely for performance failure or for failure to report (section 116(f) of WIOA).
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 13-23, Change 1, publishes final allocations for SCSEP National grantees for PY 2024 and provides the procedures for submitting Optional Special Requests and revised policies.
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 08-25 ensures states are aware of the locality-based salary rates for certain Federal civilian employees.
TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT GUIDANCE LETTER No. 09-24 informs the state and local workforce development system of the policies and priorities that govern the award and use of National Dislocated Worker Grant (DWG) funds, pursuant to the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), Title I, Section 170.
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 06-25 transmits the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared from January 1 – March 31, 2025 (second quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2025).
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