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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Maintaining MSDSs on a computer data base. - [1910; 1910.1020; 1910.1020(d)(1)(ii)(B); 1910.1020(e); 1910.1200; 1910.1200(f)(1); 1910.1200(g)(8); 1910.1200(g)(9)]
Whether the Merion Mercy Academy Defined Benefit Plan, which is established for the benefit of lay employees of Merion Mercy Academy; the Convent of the Sisters of Mercy at Merion, Pennsylvania; McAuley Convent; and Waldron Academy, is a church plan within the meaning of section 3(33) of title I of ERISA and, accordingly, whether it is excluded from coverage under title I of ERISA.
Whether Shearson/American Express Inc. Retirement Plan’s five individual trustees may retain American Express Asset Management to manage assets held in trust with respect to Shearson/American Express Inc. Retirement Plan and any plans that Shearson may maintain in the future, and that Asset Management may be paid reasonable compensation by Shearson and its participating subsidiaries for performing such services, without engaging in a prohibited transaction under section 406 of ERISA.
Safety and health standards pertaining to the electrical trades. - [1926.400]
Conformation of labeling requirements of the Hazard Communication Standard - [1910.1200; 1910.1200(f)(1)]
Whether the retention by the Plan of an undisclosed company to provide services to the Plan as plan administrator and the payment by the Plan of the direct expenses of the undisclosed company allocable to performing such services (which expenses include the reasonable compensation of employees of the undisclosed company) do not constitute prohibited transactions under section 406 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.
DOL provided a reporting format for the outline of agency construction plans set forth at 29 CFR 1.4
Police officers jointly employed by a school board to teach courses on afull time basis in public service occupations and law awareness in a school may satisfy the 13(a)(1) exemption.
DOL announced that as a result of amendments to the CWHSSA, daily OT requirements have been eliminated
Whether the investment of plans assets in the MAS Trust and the provision of services under that collective investment arrangement by MAS would be prohibited under section 406 of ERISA.
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