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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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The appropriate location for an air pressure sensor. - [1910.217]
Whether the Consolidated Labor Union Trust (the Trust) is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of ERISA, and whether an employee welfare benefit plan within the definition of section 3(1) can be maintained by more than one local.
You request an opinion that the Special Severance Pay Plan of Upper Peninsula Power Company (the Program) is a severance pay plan as defined in Department of Labor regulation 29 C.F.R. §2510.3-2(b).
Whether group insurance plans offered by the Michigan Dental Association (MDA) constitute employee welfare benefit plans within the meaning of ERISA section 3(1) and, if covered, the extent to which ERISA requirements concerning bonding and reporting are applicable to MDA or its Board of Trustees.
Whether the shares of common stock of Santa Anita Realty Enterprises, Inc. (Realty) and Santa Anita Operating Company, Inc. (OC), as evidenced by "back-to-back" stock certificates (the Paired Shares), constitute "qualifying employer securities" within the meaning of ERISA section 407(d)(5) with respect to the Plan. And further, whether the Plan's holdings of the common stock of Realty and OC violate ERISA section 404(a)(2) or 407.
Securing fixed scaffolding. - [1926.451]
Your submission concerns the prohibited transaction rules provided under sections 406 and 408 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (the Act), and section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (the Code).
Whether the participant whose benefits are garnished must be in pay status when the court decree is entered or when the decree is enforced.
Advisory opinion regarding (1) the requirement contained in section 103(a)(3)(A) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) that a plan engage an independent qualified public accountant, and (2) the requirement of section 103(b) of ERISA that a plan include in its annual report a report from such qualified public accountant regarding the financial status of the plan.
The application of presence sensing devices to general purpose power press brakes. - [1910.217]
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