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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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 Employees' 401(k) Salary Reduction Retirement Plan and Trust, formed pursuant to an Act of the Utah legislature and maintained by several school districts and public education agencies is a "governmental plan" as defined by section 3(32) of title I of ERISA.
Whether the Act 489 of the Acts of Arkansas General Assembly of 1987as it applies to employee benefit plans covered by title I of ERISA is preempted under section 514(a) of ERISA; and whether it qualifies for the exception established in section 514(b)(8) of ERISA.
Standards applicable to the process of wrapping meat in plastic. - [1910.1200]
Applicability of the revised Hazard Communication Standard to the grain industry. - [1910.1200]
Reduction of noise exposure for metal spray operations. - [1910.95]
The applicability of General Industry Standards to sign posting operations. - [1910.12]
Whether the exemptions to the prohibited transaction rules provided in Part V of Prohibited Transaction Exemption 75-1 (40 FR 50845, October 31, 1975) (PTE 75-1) and section 408(b)(2) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) apply to the extensions of credit by PaineWebber, Inc. to certain employee benefit plans as defined in section 3(3) of ERISA, plans qualified under section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 which are not subject to Title I of ERISA, and individual retirement accounts described in section 408(a) of the Code.
Acceptable guarding for continuous cycling boneless meat tenderizers. - [1910.212(a)(1); 1910.212(a)(3)(ii)]
Need to supply a material safety data sheet for oil lubricated compressors. - [1910.1200]
Response to a request regarding remedies for airborne pollutants. - [1910 Subpart Z]
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