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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Portable electric lighting used in moist and/or other similar hazardous locations. - [1926.401]
Powered air-purifying helmets are personal protective equipment, not engineering controls. - [1910.1025(e)]
Opinion with respect to the application of paragraph (b)(1) of 29 CFR §2520.104b-1 issued under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
Contributions made for the establishment and maintenance of IRAs on behalf of employees would not affect the regular rate of pay as it depends on the purpose of the plan and not on the amount of contributions an employer may make on an employee's behalf.
Safety Footwear at Construction Sites. - [1926.28]
Response to a letter of May 16, 1980, originally directed to the Internal Revenue Service, and subsequent letter dated November 6, 1980, regarding a ruling concerning the application of Part 4 of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (the Act) and section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (the Code) to a proposed loan by the Plan to the Lakeland Medical Center, Inc. (the Medical Center).
Whether a money purchase plan which constitutes part of an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) is an eligible individual account plan for purposes of section 407(b)(1) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (the Act).
Fire detection and employee alarm systems. - [1910.160; 1910.160(b)(3); 1910.160(b)(13); 1910.161; 1910.161(b)(3); 1910.37; 1910.37(e); 1910.38; 1910.38(d)]
The applicability of title I of ERISA to and possible disposition of an account (Escrow Account) established to receive the contributions of August A. Busch and Company of Massachusetts, Inc. (the Company), which had been earmarked for possible entry into the New England Teamsters and Trucking Pension Plan (the New England Plan). And how the assets in the Escrow Account might properly be distributed.
Requested a ruling that the contribution by an employer of an option to a defined benefit plan does not violate section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code.
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