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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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 an advisory opinion stating that the Plan is neither an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of ERISA section 3(1) nor an employee pension benefit plan within the meaning of ERISA section 3(2).
Whether an "Employer Group Agreement" between Employer Dental Services, Inc. (EDS) and an employer sponsoring a prepaid dental plan, under which EDS agrees to provide specified dental benefits to employees and their eligible dependents is an insurance contract or policy issued by an insurance company or similar organization which is qualified to do business in a state for purposes of 29 C.F.R. §2520.104-20(b)(ii).
Applying section 3(m) criteria to determine the "reasonable cost" or "fair value" of facilities furnished to employees.
Persons conducting pulmonary function testing to complete NIOSH spirometry course. - [1910.1043]
Information Letter to LaDonna Wallace.
Information Letter on whether Title I of ERISA prohibits the use of a single document to serve as both a plan document and a summary plan description (SPD) or expressly requires that the SPD and plan document be two separate documents.
Request an opinion that the Plan is a governmental plan within the meaning of ERISA section 3(32) and, thus, is excluded from ERISA title I coverage by ERISA section 4(b)(1).
Whether the Plan is exempt from the provisions of ERISA by virtue of its being a "governmental plan" within the meaning of 29 U.S.C. §1002 (ERISA section 3(32)).
Whether the Trust, created by employees of Natural Resource Management Corporation (NRMC) and its subsidiaries for the purpose of acquiring a general partnership interest in NRM 81-1, Ltd., a Texas limited partnership, is an "employee pension benefit plan" within the meaning of section 3(2) of ERISA, or an "employee welfare benefit plan" within the meaning of section 3(1) of ERISA.
Application of 1910.1020 to 7(c)(1) consultation activity. - [1910.1020; 1908.6 ]
Interpretation when height of exit route corridors are lower than specified. - [1910.36; 1910.37; 1910.36(g)(1)]
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