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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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
200 Constitution Ave NW
Washington, DC 20210
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Whether the Freedom Spirit program offered by Unitec Association which is insured by The Centennial Life Insurance Company is a multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) within the meaning of section 3(40) of Title I of ERISA.
Whether inclusion of employees of The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning in the County Employees Retirement Systems (CERS), a retirement system administered by the Kentucky Retirement Systems to provide retirement benefits to employees of counties and school boards in the State of Kentucky, would affect the status of CERS as a governmental plan within the meaning of section 3(32) of Title I of ERISA.
The 13(a)(1) exemption is not affected in any workween when employees perform no work and they are not paid their full salaries.
Rest and break periods are for the benefit of the employer and fully compensable under the FLSA.
Clarifications of the OSHA standards 1910.109 and 1910.119. - [1910.109; 1910.119]
Cadmium biological monitoring. - [1910.1027; 1915.1027; 1926.1127]
Spray finishing using flammable and combustible materials. - [1910.107]
Clarification of the terms "direct staring" and "incidental observing". - [1926.54(j)]
Whether the Appalachian Regional Commission Pension Plan is a governmental plan within the meaning of Title I of ERISA and thus is excluded by section 4(b)(1) from coverage by the requirements of Title I of ERISA.
Decontamination of a plush carpet surface after a spill. - [1910.1030; 1910.1030(d)(4)(ii)(A)]
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