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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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You request that the Department provide an advisory opinion as to (1) which individuals should be counted as participants in the Fund, and (2) whether the Fund is exempt from certain reporting and disclosure requirements under ERISA.
A proposed exterior building maintenance program. - [1910.66]
Whether the Alaska Public Employees Legal Fund (the Legal Plan) is a "governmental plan" within the meaning of section 3(32) of ERISA.
Requesting an advisory opinion that payment by the Trustees of the [redacted] Fund (the Fund) of a death benefit to the widow of [redacted], the Fund Manager, would, absent a legal obligation to pay such a benefit, not, per se, violate the exclusive purpose of standard of section 403(c)(1) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), the fiduciary responsibility standards of section 404(a)(1) of ERISA, or the prohibited transaction provisions of section 406 of ERISA and section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (the Code).
Electronic door opening device used with a security system. - [1910.36; 1910.36(d)(2)]
Power press brakes. - [1910.212]
Whether several insurance programs of the American Association of Petroleum Landmen (AAPL) are covered by title I of ERISA.
Whether an arbitrator would, under circumstances described below, be a fiduciary within the meaning of section 3(21)(A) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and, if so, whether an agreement by an employer and/or union to indemnify the arbitrator, out of non-plan funds, against any potential fiduciary liability would violate section 410 of ERISA.
You request an advisory opinion from the Department addressing --(1) the proper entity to file the annual report (Form 5500) for the Iowa Bankers Benefit Plan (IBBP); (2) whether only one annual report is required for IBBP; and (3) whether "333" is the proper plan number to be assigned to IBBP on Form 5500.
You request an opinion that the collectively bargained Job Security Program (the Program), administered by the JSP Agency, Inc. (JSPA), is not an employee benefit plan subject to the provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
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