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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Information Letter to William Lindsay.
Whether a plan fiduciary engages in a breach by accepting, and then returning, contributions to his political campaign from current and prospective service providers to the plan, and recusing himself from decisions relating to those service providers.
Providing employees with toilet facilities on a construction jobsite. - [1926.51(c)(1); 1926.51(c)(4)]
Evaluation of scenarios regarding PSM requirements related to normally unoccupied remote facilities and natural gas processing plants (gas plant). - [1910.119; 1910.119(b)]
Request to expand the application of the "de minimis" policy regarding Section 1926.453(b)(2)(iii) and the use of the "Wishbone" fall protection device beyond the parameters described in OSHA's February 2, 2004 letter to Mr. Michael Kurtgis. - [1926.453(b
Frequency of evaluating audiometric testing rooms to meet the specifications in Appendix D of the Occupational Noise standard. - [1910.95(h)(4); 1910.95 App D]
This letter discusses whether a municipal employee who performs two different jobs during overtime hours may be paid at time and one half the regular rate in effect when the respective jobs are performed in non-overtime hours.
Whether Georgia's Agricultural Commodities Commissions are "agencies" or "instrumentalities" of the State of Georgia so that inclusion of their employees would not adversely affect the status of Georgia's State Health Benefit Plan as a "governmental plan" within the meaning of section 3(32) of ERISA.
Audiometric baseline revisions in employee rehire situations. - [1910.95]
MSDS's must be provided to employees who package/process drugs for distribution into final form if they contain hazardous chemicals. - [1910.1200; 1910.1200(b)(6); 1910.1200(b)(6)(vii); 1910.1200(e)]
Questions regarding the Permit-Required Confined Space standard, 1910.146, and the Grain Handling standard, 1910.272. - [1910.146; 1910.146(c)(2); 1910.272; 1910.272(e)(1)(i); 1910.272(g); 1910.272(g)(3); 1910.272(g)(5)]
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