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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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
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Whether state law governing employee welfare trust funds is preempted by ERISA.
Section 3(e)(2)(C) of the Act provides an exclusion from its provisions for non-civil service employees who are elected officeholders, members of their personal staffs, and such other personnel as the elected officeholders may appoint to positions as advisors on legal questions or policy-making decisions.
Definition of slow rate of speed for crane bridges and trolleys. - [1910.179(e)(2); 1910.179(e)(3)]
Whether a proposed transaction between a Savings and Loan Association and the Pension Trust of Southern California would violate section 406 of ERISA.
Whether a person who is both a trustee and a participant in an employee benefit plan should be considered to be a fiduciary with respect to the plan under section 404(c) of ERISA if such person is a trustee with respect to both his individual account and the individual accounts or other plan participants and beneficiaries.
Requests a determination as to the fair market value of the common stock of a corporation for purposes of sections 3(18) and 408(e) of ERISA.
Reporting obligations of trade and professional associations under ERISA.
Whether the pension plan of the Hebrew Institute is a church plan as defined by ERISA.
Whether the EBS-1 form is a legal document that can only be prepared by a lawyer.
This inquiry addresses the potential violation of section 404(a)(1) of ERISA regarding monthly payments made to a former administrative manager under the plan’s authorization, despite the fact that the individual was not permitted to be employed by the Funds.
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