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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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".
- For more specific results, use quotation marks around phrases.
- For more general results, remove quotation marks to search for each word individually. For example, minimum wage will return all documents that have either the word minimum or the word wage in the description, while “minimum wage” will limit results to those containing that phrase.
Disscussion on what constitutes a ":major part" under section 13(a)(8) of the FLSA to any employee employed in connection with the publication of any weekly, semi-weekly, or daily newspaperwith a circulation of less than four thousand the major part of which circulation is within the county where published or counties contiguous. The "major part" means the majority, or over 50 percent, of the newspaper's circulation.
CPL 02-02-027 [CPL 2-2.27] - National - Benzidine - Based Dyes: Direct Black 38, Direct Brown 95 and Direct Blue 6 Dyes - 02/22/1980
Kelly Bushings on Oil Well Drilling Rigs - [1910.212(a)(1); 1910.212(a)(2)]
Citing of Reversed Polarity. - [1910.309]
Whether Totalcare Health Plan (THP) constitutes an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of ERISA.
Whether the Plan which “terminated” prior to January 1, 1975, which (pursuant to section 414(a) of ERISA) is the date upon which Part 4 generally became effective, is not required by section 403(d)(1) to distribute its assets pursuant to section 4044.
Whether Section 514 of ERISA preempts the provisions of Section 200 of the Insurance Law of the State of New York as the latter affects The Savings Bank Retirement System ("System").
Clothing lockers must prevent cross contamination of street clothes. - [1910.1029(i)(1)]
Whether the proposed Fairleigh Dickinson University Voluntary Termination Program (VTP) is a severance pay plan which is not deemed to be an employee pension benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(2) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
Whether section 408(b)(2) of the Act2 exempt(s) not only arrangements for office space and services, but also arrangements for the purchase or lease of goods necessary for the establishment and operation of a plan.
This button allows you to download all records in the database as of 1:00 am ET today into a CSV file. Please note that record changes made today will not be reflected until tomorrow.