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 To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.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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Definition of vinyl chloride, as related to a fabricated product. - [1910.1017(b)(6)]
Whether the Cemeteries Association of the Diocese Revised Pension Plan is covered under ERISA.
Whether the venue for a case brought under ERISA can be properly laid in the district of the plaintiff’s residence, when the case involves federal jurisdiction under ERISA and an amended complaint attempts to establish jurisdiction based on diversity of citizenship.
Whether successor trustees of a plan who are so designated after July 1, 1974, may receive compensation for service rendered as trustees to the plan.
Wine being aged is a processing operation and with no fire point, is not a flammable. - [1910.106]
Whether sections 404, 406, 407 and 408(e) of ERISA apply to profit sharing plans that propose to acquire either employer securities or preferred stock issued by corporations that own 100 percent of the outstanding shares of employers whose employees are covered by such profit-sharing plans.
Whether a plan trustee must be bonded if he is the sole plan participant and whether, if there are two participants in the plan and one is the trustee but can exercise control of the account’s assets, either or both must be bonded.
Guidance in questions and answers relating to fiduciary responsibilties. Redsignated on 01/12/76.
Discusses employer-employee relationship and how it hasn't been established in this particular set of facts.
Whether, to what extent, and under what circumstances delinquency of employer contributions may involve a multi-employer plan or plan fiduciaries in prohibited extensions of credit, and whether the Secretary of Labor has enforcement power with respect to welfare plans
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