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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Medical examination requirements of the inorganic arsenic standard.; Respirator fit testing requirements of the inorganic arsenic standard. - [1910.1018(n)(1)(ii); 1910.1018(n)(2)(ii)(A)]
Whether ERISA section 514 preempts that portion of section 250 of the New York State Savings Bank Law (section 250) which, in general, limits the pension that may be paid to a retired employee of a savings bank to the lesser of (1) two percent of such employee's average compensation over his final three years of service times his total years; or (2) 60 percent of his average compensation over his final three years of service.
Whether the death benefit plan (the Plan) sponsored by the Rochester Police Benevolent Association (the Association) is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of ERISA title I and, if so, whether it is a governmental plan within the meaning of section 3(32) of ERISA.
If certain duties performed by tipped employees in a restaurant after closing hours are considered to be tipped employees duties under section 531.56 (a) of 29 CFR Part 531.
Interpretation on testing requirements for grouted tunnel rock bolts - [1926.800(h)(2)(iii)]
Whether the Legal Services Region VIII Employee Benefits Organization Life Insurance Plan, the Legal Services Region VIII Employee Benefits Organization Medical Plan, and the Legal Services Region VIII Employee Benefits Organization Dental Plan (the Programs) are employee welfare benefit plans within the meaning of section 3(1) of ERISA.
CPL 02-00-042 [CPL 2.42] - National - Interagency Agreement Between the Mine Safety and Health Administration and the OSHA-USDOL - 03/14/1980
Whether the benefit program maintained by the Lower Merion Township Police Pension Association is subject to title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
Evaluation of hair pen point of operation guards - [1910.217(c)(1)(i)]
Whether the sale of capital stock of Kansas City Life Insurance Company (the Company) held by the Trustees of the Kansas City Life Insurance Company Savings and Investment Plan (the Plan) directly to the Company amounts to a prohibited transaction within the meaning of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
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