Title 29 — LaborRelease 119-73

§2705 Identification and dissemination of best practices

Title 29 › Chapter CHAPTER 29— - WORKERS TECHNOLOGY SKILL DEVELOPMENT › § 2705

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Requires the Secretary, working with the Secretary of Commerce, to help workers, unions, and employers use new workplace technologies and practices. They must collect and share the best methods for things like labor-management cooperation and worker participation, designing and using advanced workplace practices and work organization, and assessing worker skills and training needs. The materials must include case summaries and analyses, ways to judge current practices, and information on the best training and education resources. The Commerce Secretary must send these materials through a chosen entity to the Regional Centers for the Transfer of Manufacturing Technology, the Manufacturing Outreach Center, other training groups, and directly to others the Labor and Commerce Secretaries decide.

Full Legal Text

Title 29, §2705

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(a)(1)The Secretary, in cooperation and after consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, shall assist workers, worker organizations, and employers in successfully adopting advanced workplace technologies, and advanced workplace practices by identifying, collecting, and disseminating information on best workplace practices and workplace assessment tools, including—

(A)methods, techniques, and successful models of labor-management cooperation and of worker and worker organization participation in the development, evaluation, selection, and implementation of new and advanced workplace technologies, and advanced workplace practices;

(B)methods, techniques, and successful models for the design and implementation of new and advanced workplace practices;

(C)methods, techniques, and successful models for the design and implementation of advanced forms of work organization; and

(D)methods, techniques, and successful models for the assessment of worker skills and training needs relating to the effective development, evaluation, selection, and implementation of advanced workplace technologies, and advanced workplace practices.

(2)Such information on best workplace practices shall include—

(A)summaries and analyses of best practice cases;

(B)criteria for assessment of current workplace practices; and

(C)information on the best available education and training materials and services relating to the development, implementation, and operation of systems utilizing new and advanced workplace technologies, and advanced workplace practices.

(b)The information and materials developed under this section shall be distributed through an appropriate entity designated by the Secretary of Commerce to the Regional Centers for the Transfer of Manufacturing Technology, to the Manufacturing Outreach Center, to other technology training entities, and directly to others as determined appropriate by the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of Commerce.

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Citation

29 U.S.C. § 2705

Title 29 — Labor

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73