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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Construction electrical safety. - [1926.400]
Whether Sutro & Co. Incorporated (Sutro) will be considered to be a "trustee or plan administrator" for purposes of Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 79-1 (PTE 79-1) when it acts as custodian of custodial accounts established under a prototype plan for self-employed persons (the Keogh Plan) or a simplified employee pension (SEP).
Whether, to the extent premiums paid by a Plan are already included in the numerator and denominator of five percent fraction of section 408(b)(5)(B) of ERISA, indemnity reinsurance premiums paid from one insurer to another within an affiliated group for the reinsurance of the risk related to that Plan will not again be included in the numerator or denominator of that fraction.
Law does not regulate work duty assignments, work schedules, or limit the number of hours in a day or days in a week that an adult employee (16 years of age or older) may be required to work.
Interpretation on construction standard for lasers. - [1926.54]
Restaurant at state resort park open from March 21 through December 21 each year. Seventy-five percent of all restaurant receipts are received in the second and third quarters of each year. Does not meet 13(a)(3).
Whether the New Jersey Transit Corporation, Transport of New Jersey and Maplewood Equipment Company are agencies or instrumentalities of the State of New Jersey within the meaning of the definition of the term "governmental plan" in section 3(32) of ERISA. Whether so long as they retain that status, the pension plans maintained by them will be governmental plans excluded under section 4(b)(1) from coverage under title I of ERISA.
Whether three Individual Retirement Accounts are not pension plans within the meaning of section 3(2) of ERISA and accordingly are not subject to title I of ERISA. Whether loans from the IRAs to the Mitchell Rubber Products, Inc Company are not prohibited transactions under section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code.
Whether the Bricklayer's Union No. 4 Health and Welfare Fund (the Fund) is an employee welfare benefit plan under ERISA and, if so, how to properly terminate the Fund.
Whether the Minister's Group Trust (the Trust) is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of ERISA.
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