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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Whether the Texas Panhandle Medical Group, Inc. (TPMG) is a multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) within the meaning of section 3(40) of title I of ERISA. Whether any action by the State of Texas to enforce its requirement that TPMG obtain a certificate of authority to transact insurance business would be deemed inconsistent with ERISA section 514(b)(6)(A)(ii).
Whether the Greater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce Medical Benefits Trust (the Trust) is subject to state regulation of the Trust at least to the extent provided in section 514(b)(6)(A).
Full time contract personnel at plant facility considered "workplace employees" - [1910.120(q)(11)]
CPL 02-00-080 [CPL 2.80] - National - Handling of Cases To Be Proposed for Violation-By-Violation Penalties - 10/21/1990
Whether the TAHA Employee Medical Trust (the Trust) sponsored by the Texas Association of Homes for the Aging (TAHA) is a multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) and, if so, whether the State of Texas can require the Trust under section 514(b)(6)(A)(ii) of that title to obtain a certificate of authority, and whether the preemption provisions of ERISA do not preclude state regulation of the Trust at least to the extent provided in section 514(b)(6)(A), regardless of whether it is an employee benefit plan covered by title I of ERISA, because it is a MEWA within the meaning of section 3(40) of that title.
Hazard communication program on site and standard covering electrical installation, maintenance or repair. - [1910.1200(e); 1910.331; 1910.332]
Control systems used for emergency evacuation are required to be listed by Underwriter's Laboratories. - [1910.303; 1910.303(a)]
Point-of-operation guards for drill presses and lathes. - [1910.212(a)(1)]
Requirements for providing MSDS information for carcinogens which are a residue in a mixture - [1910.1200(d)(5)]
Quality control laboratories are not expected to be covered under the Laboratory Standard - [1910.1450]
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