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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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
Search Tips
- If you are searching using an acronym, try a second search with the acronym spelled out. For example, if you are searching for guidance related to the Davis-Bacon Act, try searching "Davis-Bacon Act" as well as "DBA".
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An interpretation of 1910.184, which defines "sling". - [1910.184]
The positioning of the safety line on billboards. - [1910.23]
Whether the Metropolitan Transit Authority Union Pension Plan Local 260, TWU, AFL-CIO (the Plan) is a governmental plan within the meaning of ERISA section 3(32) and thus, is excluded from coverage of ERISA title I requirements by ERISA section 4(b)(1).
Whether the Plan is an "employee welfare benefit plan" within the meaning of section 3(1) of ERISA. Whether the Plan is an "employee benefit plan" within the meaning of ERISA section 3(3). Whether the Plan is an "employee benefit plan" as provided in ERISA section 514(b)(2)(B); Whether the Plan is 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 section 201(1). Whether the Plan is 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).
Whether the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West, Inc. Corporation (the Corporation) is an agency or instrumentality of the Government of the United States, or of the Government of the State of Hawaii, or of both and whether the pension and welfare plans of the Corporation are covered under the provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
Slip on tool hooks cannot be used because of a danger of electrical shock. - [1926.951(b)(2)]
Whether a certain understanding denominated the “Letter Agreement” or “Agreement” between the Chrysler Corporation (Chrysler) and the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) raises issues under part 4 of Title I of ERISA.
Whether a document providing notification of a plan trustee’s change in name must be furnished to plan participants and beneficiaries in accordance with section 104(b)(1) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and 29 C.F.R. §2520.104b-3.
Whether neither the Existing Plans nor the Consolidated Plan are (1) employee welfare benefit plans within the meaning of section 3(1) of ERISA, (2) employee pension benefit plans within the meaning of section 3(2) of ERISA, or (3) employee benefit plans within the meaning of section 3(3) of ERISA.
Whether under the affiliations among Cannon, Services and Administrators: (1) Administrators may continue to serve as the “nominal” plan administrator, (despite the limitation on the availability of Prohibited Transaction Exemption 77-9 (PTE 77-9),1 and (2) Cannon and Services may continue to rely on PTE 77-9 with respect to the classes of transactions described in paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d) and (f) of Section III of the exemption.
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