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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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
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Ship's ladders in restricted spaces considered de minimis violations. - [1910.24(e)]
OSHA practices in recognizing national testing laboratories. - [1910.303(a)]
Whether Mr. Melvin Lennard, an impartial arbitrator, is a fiduciary under section 3(21)(A) of ERISA in settling a dispute between management and union trustees of the Warehousemen's Health & Welfare Trust Fund.
Section 13(b)(9) of the Act provides an overtime pay exemption for any employee employed as an announcer, news editor, or chief engineer by a radio or television station
Whether the prohibited transaction exemption contained in section 408(b)(8) of ERISA is available for fund-to-fund investments by pooled funds maintained by a bank. Whether the class exemption for bank collective investment funds (Prohibited Transaction Exemption 80-51) is available for certain transactions of a pooled fund in which another pooled fund has invested.
Whether section 107 of ERISA requires the Harrison Electrical Workers Trust Fund to maintain for six years the health and welfare claims submitted by participants in the Trust, as opposed to the "recaps" used to prepare the annual return/reports.
Eyewash equipment is not an acceptable substitute for protective eyewear. - [1910.151(c)]
Whether the establishment of the investment committee by the Plan's Board of Trustees to perform investment services for the Plan would not contravene the fiduciary responsibility provisions of ERISA.
Whether the Reuters Pension Fund, based in London, England, is excluded from coverage under section 4(b)(4) of ERISA.
Whether Prather Sheet Metal Works, Inc. and Readi-Co Mfg., Inc. established or maintained the Prather Sheet Metal Works, Inc. and Readi-Co Mfg., Inc. Defined Benefit Plan for purposes of ERISA title I.
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