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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Discussion as to whether it's appropriate to use room and board as part of an employee's compensation who are customarily and regularly furnished room and board in health care facilities engaged in providing care to persons with mental disabilities
CPL 02-00-042 [CPL 2.42 CH-1] - National - Interagency Agreement Between the Mine Safety and Health Administration and the OSHA-USDOL - 09/16/1980
Applicability of 29 CFR 1910.268 to pipeline transmission companies and gas utilities. - [1910.268]
Falling object protective structure standards. - [1926.604]
OSHA's classification of assembled auto air bag inflation modules. - [1910.109]
Cushion part of the body belt. - [1926.959(b)(2)(i)]
Whether certain medical make-up payments made by ESB, Incorporated (the Company) as supplemental compensation pursuant to a collectively bargained agreement do not constitute an "employee welfare benefit plan" within the meaning of section 3(1) of ERISA.
Whether the two Thiokol Corporation Retirement Income plans for-employees at the Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant (the Plans) qualify for the limited exemption from the annual reporting requirements of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) provided in 29 CFR 2520.104-44. Specifically, whether the Plans are exempt, pursuant to 2520.104-44, from the requirement in section l03(a)(3)(A) of ERISA to engage an independent qualified public accountant to conduct an examination of the financial statements and schedules of the Plans.
Whether the Thiokol Corporation Retirement Income Plan (the Plan) qualifies for the limited exemption from the annual reporting requirements of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) provided in 29 CFR 2520.104-44. Whether the Plan is exempt pursuant to 2520.104-44 from the requirement in section 103(a)(3)(A) of ERISA to engage an independent qualified public accountant to conduct an examination of the financial statements and schedules of the Plan.
Whether the National Health and Welfare Retirement Association (NHWRA) is an "insurance company" within the meaning of the definition of the term "investment manager" in section 3(38) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and an insurance carrier regulated and supervised and subject to periodic examination by a State agency within the meaning of 29 CFR §2520.103-4 (which provides an exemption from certain annual reporting requirements for assets held in an insurance company pooled separate account).
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