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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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
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Washington, DC 20210
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Whether administrative assistants qualify for exemption under section 13(a)(1) of the FLSA.
Whether, and under what circumstances, American Heartland Health Administrators, Inc. (and a selected "reinsurance company") may be subject to the provisions of ERISA, and whether compliance with a cease and desist order would cause AHHA to violate its fiduciary duty to act in accordance with the documents and instruments governing the plans.
Clarification of PSM applicability to processes that are based partly or solely on quantities in connected atmospheric storage tanks. - [1910.119; 1910.119(a)(1)(ii)(B); 1910.1450]
Regarding the application of ERISA to the provision of overdraft protection services, including any inherent extension of credit incident to such services, by banks, whether or not the bank exercises investment discretion over plan assets.
Whether requirements listed by ERISA § 4(c) for "deemed IRAs" apply to those added to the Plan, assuming it is a governmental plan excluded from Title I by ERISA § 4(b)(1), and whether adding "deemed IRAs" adversely affects Plan exclusion.
Use of occupational exposure levels (OELs) for substances not covered by an OSHA Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL). - [1910.1000]
Acceptability of using extensible boom forklifts to lift steel joist for spreading by hand. - [1926.757; 1926.602; 1926.602(c); 1926.602(c)(1); 1926.600]
Compliance of Non-Stop base tower and extension frames with scaffold access requirements. - [1926.451; 1926.451(e)(6)(ii); 1926.451(e)(6)(vi); 1926.451(e)(7)]
Evaluation of sutureless catheter securement devices to prevent needlestick hazards. - [1910.1030(c); 1910.1030]
Sheer connector requirements in the steel erection standard to bridge repair/rehabilitation. - [1926.750; 1926.750(a); 1926.750(b)(1); 1926.750(b)(2); 1926.754; 1926.754(c)(1)]
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