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Title 29 — Labor

Chapter 23 — Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification

§ 2107. Authority to prescribe regulations

Statutory text

(a)

The Secretary of Labor shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to carry out this chapter. Such regulations shall, at a minimum, include interpretative regulations describing the methods by which employers may provide for appropriate service of notice as required by this chapter.

(b)

The mailing of notice to an employee’s last known address or inclusion of notice in the employee’s paycheck will be considered acceptable methods for fulfillment of the employer’s obligation to give notice to each affected employee under this chapter.

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 § 8 · 102 Stat. 890

    Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 2107

    (Pub. L. 100–379, § 8, Aug. 4, 1988, 102 Stat. 894.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 100–379, § 8, Aug. 4, 1988, 102 Stat. 894.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 8. AUTHORITY TO PRESCRIBE REGULATIONS. (a) The Secretary of Labor shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to carry out this Act. Such regulations shall, at a minimum, include interpretative regulations describing the methods by which employers may provide for appropriate service of notice as required by this Act. (b) The mailing of notice to an employee’s last known address or inclusion of notice in the employee’s paycheck will be considered acceptable methods for fulfillment of the employer’s obligation to give notice to each affected employee under this Act.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective 6 months after , except that the authority of the Secretary of Labor under this section is effective on , see section 11 of Pub. L. 100–379, set out as a note under section 2101 of this title.

Credits

(Pub. L. 100–379, § 8, , 102 Stat. 894.)

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