Title 45 — Railroads
Chapter 16 — Regional Rail Reorganization
§ 797e. Assignment of work
Statutory text
General
With respect to any craft or class of employees not covered by a collective bargaining agreement that provides for a process substantially equivalent to that provided for in this section, the Corporation shall have the right to assign, allocate, reassign, reallocate, and consolidate work formerly performed on the rail properties acquired pursuant to the provisions of this chapter from a railroad in reorganization to any location, facility, or position on its system if it does not remove such work from coverage of a collective bargaining agreement and does not infringe upon the existing classification of work rights of any craft or class of employees at the location or facility to which such work is assigned, allocated, reassigned, reallocated, or consolidated. Prior to the exercise of authority under this subsection, the Corporation shall negotiate an agreement with the representatives of the employees involved permitting such employees the right to follow their work.
Expiration
The authority granted by this section shall apply only for as long as benefits are provided under this subchapter with funds made available under section 797l 1 of this title.
Footnotes
- 1 See References in Text note below.
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.
Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973
Pub. L. 93–236 title VII § 706 · 87 Stat. 985
Enacted · 45 U.S.C. § 797e
(Pub. L. 93–236, title VII, § 706, as added Pub. L. 97–35, title XI, § 1143(a), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 665.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 93–236, title VII, § 706, as added Pub. L. 97–35, title XI, § 1143(a), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 665.)
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
References in Text
Section 797l of this title, referred to in subsec. (b), was repealed by Pub. L. 99–509, title IV, § 4033(a)(2), , 100 Stat. 1908, and a new section 797l of this title was subsequently added by Pub. L. 104–88, § 327(5).
Credits
(Pub. L. 93–236, title VII, § 706, as added Pub. L. 97–35, title XI, § 1143(a), , 95 Stat. 665.)