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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Washington, DC 20210
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Applicability of the Coal Tar Pitch Volatiles Standard to dust of coal tar pitch. - [1910.1002]
Informing BAT/SAC of policy to register sovereign nations tribes
Whether the provision of investment management services by SPNB and/or its affiliates in connection with the maintenance of a common or collective trust fund violates the prohibited transaction provisions of ERISA? Whether it would be exempt from the prohibitions of section 406 of ERISA if the conditions of section 408(b)(8) are met?
Use of roof top rolling outriggers used for swinging scaffolds. - [1926.451(a)(2)]
Installation of a single stroke mechanism on full revolution mechanical power presses. - [1910.217]
The safety of divers. - [1910.401; 1926.1071]
Whether the Trustees of the Glass/Metal Association of Hawaii and Glaziers and Glassworkers Training, Vacation, Health and Welfare, and Pension Funds (the Trustees) are required under ERISA to provide minutes of the Trustees' meetings, the treasurer's reports, audited reports by Certified Public Accountants, and reports submitted to the State and Federal governments to "contributing employers who are not participants or beneficiary parties" in the Funds.
Paying Registered nurses on a fee basis, as discussed in section 541.313 of Regulations, 29 CFR Part 541, so that the employee could qualify for exemption as a bona fide professional employee under the upset salary proviso in section 541.3(e) of the regulations.
Whether the proposed sale of employer stock between two plans (the Yellow Freight Profit-Sharing Trust and the Yellow Freight System, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Trust) with the same plan sponsor is exempt from the prohibited transaction provisions of section 406 of ERISA and from the taxes imposed by section 4975 of the Code by reason of section 408(e) of ERISA. Whether the method of determining the purchase price of the common stock is permissible under section 408(e) of ERISA.
Pneumatic tools must be designed and used in accordance with good engineering practices. - [1926.302]
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