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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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 arrangement by the Wisconsin Education Association Insurance Trust (WEA Insurance Trust) to provide group health benefits to the employees of the Sioux City Community School District of Sioux City, Iowa (the School District) is established or maintained by an employees' beneficiary association within the meaning of section 3(4) of ERISA and whether the insurance laws of the State of Iowa are preempted by section 514(a) of title I of ERISA.
Whether the arrangement between the Sioux City Community School District of Sioux City, Iowa, and the Wisconsin Education Association Insurance Trust (WEA Insurance Trust) the WEA Insurance Trust program of benefits for employees of school districts is not established and is not maintained by an employee organization within the meaning of section 3(4) of title I of ERISA with respect to those employees. This opinion revokes Opinion 83-36A (issued July 5, 1983) regarding the status of the WEA Insurance Trust under title I of ERISA.
Whether entities that are recipients of “church plan” letters from IRS constitute one or more church plans within the meaning of section 3(33) of title I of ERISA.
Requirements for fire brigade instructors.; Requirements for fire brigade instructors. - [1910.156; 1910.157]
Use of an electronic back-up mirror used with a with a reverse audible alarm. - [1926.602(a)(9)]
Regulations for the calibration of spirometers and audiometers;Regulations for the calibration of spirometers and audiometers. - [1910.1043; 1910.95]
Clarification of application and requirements for unobstructed view for 1926.601(a). - [1926.601(a)]
Professional exemption for Licensed Veterinary Technicians
Whether the Group Insurance Trust Funds constitute multiple employer welfare arrangements (MEWAs) within the meaning of section 3(40) of title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and, if so, whether such MEWAs are fully insured within the meaning of section 514(b)(6)(A)(i) of title I of ERISA and therefore state insurance laws would not apply except to the extent permitted under section 514(b)(6)(A)(i) of ERISA.
Fixed salary for inside sales personnel with a fluctuating workweek.
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