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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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
200 Constitution Ave NW
Washington, DC 20210
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Applicability of Abrasive Wheel Machinery Guarding Requirements to Scotch-Brite Brand Wheels and Brushes Manufactured by the 3-M Company. - [1910.94; 1910.132; 1910.215]
Signs and protective equipment requirements for a vinyl chloride hazardous operation. - [1910.1017(b)(7)]
Whether the Severance Pay Plan is an employee pension benefit plan, as defined under section 3(2) of ERISA, or an employee welfare benefit plan, as defined under section 3(1) of ERISA.
Applicability of title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to the Garden State Dental Benefits Program, Inc. (Garden State).
You ask that the Department determine that the Program is neither an "employee welfare benefit plan" as defined in ERISA section 3(1) nor an "employee pension benefit plan" as defined in ERISA section 3(2) and therefore is not subject to the requirements of title I of ERISA.
An application for exemption from the prohibitions of section 406 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (the Act) and from the sanctions resulting from the application of section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (the Code).
Reporting requirement under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) as it applies to three employee welfare benefit plans for which Pension & Group Services, Inc., provides administrative services: the Industrial State Bank and Trust Company Participant Benefit Plan (Bank Plan); L. Perrigo Company Participant Benefit Trust Plan (Perrigo Plan); and Archway Cookies, Inc. Participant Benefit Trust (Archway Plan).
An opinion that the Plan may acquire some of the preferred stock in payment of a debt owed by Heritage to the Plan and in exchange for Heritage common stock owned by the Plan.
Requesting an advisory opinion that certain proposed transactions involving the Consumers United Group, Inc. Profit Sharing Plan (the Plan) are exempt from the prohibited transaction provisions of section 406 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) by virtue of section 408(e) of ERISA.
You ask for an exemption from the reporting and disclosure requirements contained in part 1 of title I of ERISA on behalf of the Bliss & Laughlin Industries Incorporated Non-Contributory Pension Plan for Hourly Paid Employees at Buffalo, N.Y. Plant (the Buffalo Plan) and the Bliss & Laughlin Industries Incorporated Non-Contributory Pension Plan for Hourly Paid Employees at Mansfield, Mass. Plant (the Mansfield Plan).
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