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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Wine being aged is a processing operation and with no fire point, is not a flammable. - [1910.106]
Whether a plan trustee must be bonded if he is the sole plan participant and whether, if there are two participants in the plan and one is the trustee but can exercise control of the account’s assets, either or both must be bonded.
Guidance in questions and answers relating to fiduciary responsibilties. Redsignated on 01/12/76.
Discusses employer-employee relationship and how it hasn't been established in this particular set of facts.
This letter discusses rest and break periods. There is no provision in the Act which requires an employer to give the employees work breaks. If an employer does provide rest periods or work breaks, however, such periods must be counted as working time if they do not exceed 20 minutes.
Use of "Electronic Air Cleaners" for spray finishing operations. - [1910.107(d)(9)]
Responsibilities of custodians or trustees of individual retirement accounts established under section 408(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (Code) under Title I of ERISA.
Applicability of bridge and trolley bumper requirements. - [1910.179(e)(2); 1910.179(e)(3)]
14 day period compensation for hospital employees and overtime requirements.
A shirt would be considered personal protective equipment in the same manner as goggles, hard hats, or respirators. - [1926.28(a)]
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