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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Whether a program of supplemental benefits to former employees by the Crocker National Bank (the Bank) constitutes an employee pension benefit plan within the meaning of ERISA section 3(2).
Application of section 13(b)(24) of the FLSA provides an overtime pay exemption for any employee who is employed with such employee's spouse by a non-profit educational institution to serve as the parents of children (A) who are orphans or one of whose natural parents is deceased, and (B) who are enrolled in such institution and reside in residential facilities of the institution.
Whether certain transaction between Capitol Plumbing and Heating Supply Co. ("Capitol") and the Capitol Plumbing Profit-Sharing and Thrift Trust do not constitute prohibited transactions under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
Regulations for back-up alarms. - [1926.601(b)(4)]
Whether a certain trust known as the "RETA" Trust and the benefit plan established in connection with it (RETA Plan) is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of ERISA and, if so, whether the Department has promulgated regulations regarding the definition of church plan under section 3(33) of ERISA.
Whether the health benefits program of the Small Business Independent Trades Association (SBITA) is an employee benefit plan within the meaning of ERISA section 3(3).
Whether the Black & Decker Disability Plan and Trust (the Plan) is: (1) an "employee welfare benefit plan" within the meaning of section 3(1) of ERISA; (2) an "employee benefit plan" within the meaning of ERISA section 3(3); (3) an "employee benefit plan" as provided in ERISA section 514(b)(2)(B); (4) exempt from the participation and vesting requirements of part 2 of title I of ERISA as an "employee welfare benefit plan" within the meaning of ERISA section 201(1); (5) exempt from the funding requirements of part 3 of title I of ERISA as an "employee welfare benefit plan" as defined in ERISA section 301(a)(1); and (6) exempt from title IV of ERISA. You state that the Plan is provided to employees of Black & Decker.
Whether, under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), it is permissible to garnish the Laborers’ Vacation-Holiday Trust Fund for Northern California (the Fund) for child support arrearages.
Single stroke mechanism as used on full revolution mechanical power presses. - [1910.217]
Whether the Torrington Company Severance Pay Plan (the Severance Plan) constitutes an "employee welfare benefit plan" under section 3(1) of ERISA, and, further, that the Severance Plan is not an "employee pension benefit plan" under section 3(2) of ERISA.
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