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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Information Letter to Cary Hammond, Esq.
Guidance regarding DOL's 03/13/97 Federal Register announcement in which we requested public comments on a proposed enforcement policy for annual reports of multiemployer welfare plans. Under the proposal, the department would not reject the annual report of a multiemployer welfare plan solely because the accountant's opinion accompanying the report was qualified or adverse due to a failure to account and report for postretirement benefit obligations in accordance with the AICPA Statement of Position 92-6. To allow the department enough time to consider public comments on the proposal, the announcement also provided that we will not reject 1996 and 1997 plan year annual reports due to such qualified or adverse accountant's opinions.
Whether the proposed decision by the A.T. & S.F. Employees Benefit Association to serve as a "point-of-service" provider of health care services under a managed care program sponsored by the Railroad Employees National Health Care Plan effects the status of the Association and the health benefit program the Association sponsors for its own members under ERISA.
Means of Egress. - [1910]
Roll-over protective structures for agricultural wheeled tractors. - [1928.51]
Service workers in the heating, plumbing and air-conditioning industries. - [1910; 1910.12; 1926.13]
OSHA's standard for exposure to bloodborne pathogens. - [1910.1030]
This letter provides guidance on the deduction of salaries of employees exempt under the FLSA while on FMLA leave.
This letter is under review. This letter provides guidance on intermittent leave; and the employer's notification requirements.
NIOSH approved respirator during the period of an employee's escape from a chemical release of phosgene. - [1910.134(d)(1)(ii)]
Sodium Azide as Used in the Manufacturing Process of Automobile Air Bags. - [1910.109; 1910.119]
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