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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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 the Wilmington Finishing Company Incentive Payment Program (the Program) which enables employees of Wilmington Finishing Company (the Company) to share in a portion of the Company’s profits each year is not an employee benefit plan as defined in section 3(3) of ERISA.
DOL announced a format change for DBA WDs, specifically, the DOL will publish a consolidated fringe benefit amount rather than separate amounts.
Whether the Local 734 Pension Fund, Laborers’ International Union of North America (the Pension Fund) and the Local 734 Welfare Fund, Laborers' International Union of North America (the Welfare Fund) are covered under both title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the predecessor law, the Welfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act, as Amended (WPPDA).
Whether the Business Travel Accident Insurance program (the Plan) of Northern Telecom, Ltd. which covers employees of Northern Telecom, Ltd., a Canadian corporation, and employees of its subsidiaries, including its United States subsidiary, Northern Telecom, Inc. is exempt from coverage under title I of ERISA by section 4(b)(4) because the majority of its employees are nonresident aliens of the United States.
Carbon Monoxide Alarm/Monitoring at Abrasive Blasting Operations. - [1910.94; 1910.134]
Requirements for off highway vehicles being exported from the UK to the USA. - [1910.169]
Bump caps would not provide adequate employee head protection for all exposures in manholes. - [1910.135 ; 1926.100]
Packaging of combustible liquids of 110 gallons or less. - [1910.106(d)(2)]
Whether the payment of pension benefits to a non-employee former spouse is an assignment or alienation of benefits prohibited by ERISA section 206(d)(1) or whether Illinois marital property laws relate to employee benefit plans within the meaning of ERISA section 514(a) and are therefore preempted.
Whether the Michigan Association of Timbermen Employee Benefit Plan Trust (MAT Trust) does not provide insurance, and that Michigan state laws applicable to it are preempted by section 514 of ERISA.
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