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Title 29 — Labor

Chapter 23 — Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification

§ 2106. Procedures encouraged where not required

Statutory text

It is the sense of Congress that an employer who is not required to comply with the notice requirements of section 2102 of this title should, to the extent possible, provide notice to its employees about a proposal to close a plant or permanently reduce its workforce.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act

    Pub. L. 100–379 § 7 · 102 Stat. 890

    Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 2106

    (Pub. L. 100–379, § 7, Aug. 4, 1988, 102 Stat. 894.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 100–379, § 7, Aug. 4, 1988, 102 Stat. 894.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 7. PROCEDURES ENCOURAGED WHERE NOT REQUIRED. It is the sense of Congress that an employer who is not required to comply with the notice requirements of section 3 should, to the extent possible, provide notice to its employees about a proposal to close a plant or permanently reduce its workforce.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective 6 months after , see section 11 of Pub. L. 100–379, set out as a note under section 2101 of this title.

Credits

(Pub. L. 100–379, § 7, , 102 Stat. 894.)

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