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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Proposed shopping news publication would be a newspaper for the purpose of section 13(d) of the Act, and the employees exclusively engaged in the delivery of the news or the company's daily newspaper would come within the 13(d) exemption.
Whether an employer who sponsors a non-Model SEP would be adversely affected, in terms of using the alternative method of compliance with the reporting and disclosure requirements provided under section 2520.104-49, if a participant directs the Bank to invest his/her funds in the "special notice account" which restricts withdrawal, despite the availability of other investment options which do not have such a restriction.
Variable day to day exposures cannot be averaged for compliance with action level - [1910.95(c)]
Whether the Truman Medical Center Retirement Plan is a governmental plan within the meaning of ERISA section 3(32) and thereby is excluded from coverage under title I by section 4(b) of ERISA.
Whether the trustees’ interpretation of the SASMI Plan’s documents should stand.
Whether a Plan would be a "savings plan" and, as such, would be an "eligible individual account plan" under section 407(d)(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
CPL 02-01-015 [CPL 2-1.15A] - National - New Meat Tenderizing Technology in the Meat Industry - 12/23/1981
Whether the Corporation's program of salary continuation constitutes a mere payroll practice within the meaning of 29 C.F.R. S2510.31(b)(2) rather than an employee welfare benefit plan described in ERISA section 3(1) and, thus, is excluded from ERISA title I coverage.
States where neither state nor federal certificates of age, or State employment certificates or work permits are available, an employer may rely on the documents specified in Regulation 570. 10.
Whether a payroll deduction program for an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) will constitute an employee pension benefit plan for the purposes of title I of ERISA under certain circumstances.
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