§2623 Employment effects

Summary

The Administrator must keep checking how rules or orders under sections 2603, 2604, and 2605, or requirements in sections 2604 or 2605, might affect jobs, including job cuts or job loss from threatened plant closures. Any employee or that employee’s representative can ask the Administrator to investigate a discharge, layoff, threatened discharge or layoff, or other harmful effects on the employee’s job. When asked, the Administrator must do the investigation and must hold public hearings if someone requests them, unless the Administrator denies the hearing within 45 days for lack of reasonable grounds and tells the requester in writing and in the Federal Register why. If hearings are held, the requester and any named persons must get at least 5 days’ notice, and the employee(s) and employer must give information and its basis. After the investigation, the Administrator must publish findings and any recommendations. This does not require changing or undoing any existing rule or order.